meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Pod Save America

Introducing The Wilderness (Trailer)

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Wilderness is a new documentary podcast from Crooked Media and Two-Up Productions about the history and future of the Democratic Party. Jon Favreau tells the story of a party finding its way out of the political wilderness through conversations with strategists, historians, policy experts, organizers, and voters. In fifteen chapters, the series explores issues like inequality, race, immigration, sexism, foreign policy, media strategy, and how Democrats can build a winning majority that lasts. Coming July 16th. Subscribe to The Wilderness now.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This mission is asking for action and action now.

0:07.0

And stop what your country can do for you and what you can do for your country.

0:13.0

The great society rests on abundance and liberty for all.

0:16.0

The time for racial discrimination is always.

0:19.0

We no longer can have a country where I worry about me, you worry about you, they worry about them.

0:25.0

The party that grows about and Kennedy has always made the biggest difference when we summon the entire nation to a common purpose, a higher purpose.

0:42.0

Donald John Trump do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute.

0:48.0

How did we get here?

0:50.0

Faithfully.

0:51.0

How did we lose to this guy?

0:53.0

And how did we end up with fewer Democrats in office than at any time in decades?

0:57.0

Since Barack Obama first took office, the Democrats, when you count state legislators, governors, House, Senate, and the presidency, they lost 900 seats, 900.

1:09.0

This is a story about a party that's finding its way out of the political wilderness.

1:14.0

In the last eight months, I've talked to more than 100 people about the state of the Democratic Party.

1:18.0

I interviewed the party's critics and defenders, strategists and organizers.

1:22.0

I talked to historians, data nerds, policywanks, and a few politicians to ask some hard questions and have some honest conversations, all with the goal of charting our way out of the wilderness together.

1:33.0

There's not an either or. It's not that we talk about class or we talk about race, gender, or white supremacy or immigration of the dreamers.

1:42.0

We talk about it all because it is all absolutely intertwined.

1:46.0

We can have an immigration system that provides for our national security. The one we have right now is not it. It's broken.

1:52.0

Democrats should position themselves as the people who can fix the problem.

1:56.0

We are for pursuing diplomacy before going to war. We are for the promotion of American values and democracy in human rights around the world.

2:04.0

We are advocating for a multivacial populism.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crooked Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crooked Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.