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🗓️ 27 November 2025
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Legendary Democratic pollster James Carville examines why populism is the path for Democrats to win.The Center for Working Class Politics’ Jared Abbott details The Democratic Penalty and how Democrats can win with a populist message.
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| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines |
| 0:10.9 | with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.1 | We're on vacation, but that doesn't mean we don't have a great show for you today. |
| 0:16.2 | The Center for Working Class Politics, Jared Abbott, stops by to talk to us about the Democratic |
| 0:22.5 | penalty and how Democrats can win with the populace message. But first, we'll talk to legendary |
| 0:28.9 | Democratic poster, the Raging Cajun, James Carval. James Carval. Welcome back. Well, thank you. |
| 0:36.3 | I love, I love being on this off-paper podcast to come on. Thank you. Well, thank you. I love, I love love favorite podcast to come on. Thank you very much. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you. I've read this piece you wrote in the New York Times. I agree 100%. I want |
| 0:46.9 | you to tell me first, why do you think economic populism is the only way to go? |
| 0:54.3 | Well, I think it for a couple of reasons. |
| 0:56.4 | And I've just been thinking about it and been building up for a time. |
| 1:00.8 | The Scott Galloway lecture on generational theft really got me to think it a lot deeper about it. |
| 1:07.6 | And I'll be honest with Molly, I started hearing from the billionaire class saying, |
| 1:12.9 | we've got to do something. This is just not, this is not work. I mean, people like this for the |
| 1:16.9 | fact, we're saying, James, you need to say something. Because the amount of wealth that is going |
| 1:22.7 | to older people and savers and people that already have wealth that's just overwhelming. And what have we |
| 1:30.1 | done this year? We've straddled the young people with another three and a half trillion dollars in |
| 1:35.8 | debt and we straddled what a tax code is even more unfair to them. And I was on a squawk box this |
| 1:43.2 | morning, Andrew Ross-alking. |
| 1:45.4 | Somebody needs to do an intervention on capitalism, |
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