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podcasts and print so for fact sake search the economist. And if there's a silver lining to Trump, I hope that it's people realize, you know,

it's the importance of American power, but it needs to be guided obviously by someone who isn't Donald Trump

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to a podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to the

authoritarian populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

Speaking of beating Donald Trump, I've been thinking about the way in which we talk about 2020.

And just as generals are supposed to always fight the last war, I think that, you know, election

strategists, both professional and armchair like you and me, might be in danger of fighting

the last war again.

Nearly everybody is talking about how do we win back. might be in danger of fighting the last war again.

Nearly everybody is talking about how do we win back the white working class,

which often is basically code for how do we win back Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

There's three states that Hillary Clinton lost by about 80,000

votes because it seems like those are the states we should go back to win.

But I think that there's sort of two forced assumptions in here.

The first forced assumption is that political geography is relatively stable, that it hasn't changed much over time.

But when you look back at the electron map of the United States of the last 200 years,

it changes every time, every election to every election is really much more different when you think.

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