INTERVIEW: Ari talks with Christian Paz from Vox
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever read one of Vox’s famous “Explainer” articles, you’re probably familiar with Christian Paz’s work. His reporting is at the forefront of several animating issues in U.S. politics — immigration, the courts, the cultural impact of the Make America Great Again movement, and more.
One recent story of his caught our eye and prompted us to reach out for an interview. The piece — titled “The Democrats’ young man problem is real” — offers a detailed look at the shift away from the Democratic Party among Gen Z in the 2024 election and the factors that are driving the trend. It touches on topics like artificial intelligence, social media, the Democratic brand and the unique appeal of Trump, and Paz makes a compelling argument about how these factors could come into play in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
When we reached out to Paz, we were hoping to hear more about the ideological roots of this shift, but the conversation also ended up delving into the structural and cultural forces at play in the United States. Whether you’re on the left, right or center, this is a discussion that highlights probing questions about our political moment and how each party is adapting to a new generation of voters coming into their own.
We’re excited to share the conversation and hear from you about the central question it raises: Have Democrats lost an entire generation of men?
Ari & the Tangle team
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| 1:01.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, |
| 1:23.9 | a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host for today, Tangle Managing Editor Ari |
| 1:32.3 | Weitzman, and I'm going to be interviewing Christian Pause today. Christian is a senior |
| 1:37.9 | politics reporter at Vox. He covers the Democratic Party and recently wrote about the |
| 1:42.8 | 2024 election pretty extensively. He also reports |
| 1:46.0 | on political trends, issues, movements changing America's political parties, and American identity in |
| 1:51.2 | general. He joined Vox in 2022 after reporting on national and international politics for the Atlantic, |
| 1:56.6 | and he's written extensively about identity and voting in the 2020 election, the 2024 election. |
| 2:03.2 | He and I got together to talk about the young men problem that the Democrats are having. |
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