Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going host Tim Miller. Today I'm here with my friend Josh Barrow writer of the very serious newsletter on

sub-stack co-host of the legal podcast Serious Trouble with Pope hat aka Ken White

He is a male-loving centrist and I have those a lot of different

you know where's a lot of different hats politics economy we're gonna get them

in on some life advice in a mail bag at the very end.

Awesome.

I'm excited to have them.

Thanks for coming Josh. Absolutely.

Great to be here.

Let me just start here.

For folks who aren't familiar, it used to be the center on left right and center on NPR.

And so, like, help us get our bearings on your politics.

How do you define your politics these days and you know maybe related to that?

How do you assess the performance of the Biden administration vis-à-vis your political preferences?

Well, I mean, I'm a Democrat back in the day.

I used to be a Republican, but I've been toward the political center through most of that

journey. And, you know, I sort of like a lot of people in my political will house

who drifted toward the Democratic Party over the last decade,

it's sort of for the same set of reasons largely but not entirely to do with Donald Trump and the

realignment of Democrats as the more serious party essentially. I was a

champion of Biden's in the 2020 campaign. I thought that it was a mistake for the Democratic Party to try to run a two left-wing candidate

and I think you know when the election turned out to be closer than we expected

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