Lacking The Courage Of His Convictions
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt and Brian discuss the solidifying Democratic response to Donald Trump’s felony convictions, and scratch their heads a bit:
* Why are Democrats demurring when the facts are the ground are so advantageous to them?
* How consistent is this with the party’s past practice of shrugging off Trump-accountability moments?
* What if any role should data play in these kinds of rapid response moments, when Trump’s widespread unpopularity is so consistent?
Then, behind the paywall, we break down the forces within the party that cut against a unified, vigorous response: Does taking it easy on Trump really help swing-state and swing-district Democrats? How do Democratic congressional leaders actually conceive of their jobs? Would progressive leaders rather talk about Trump’s status as a felony convict and rapist, or about their policy agendas? Plus, what do Matt and Brian think a savvy response to the convictions look like? All that, plus the full Politix archive are available to paid subscribers—just upgrade your subscription and pipe full episodes directly to your favorite podcast app via your own private feed.
Further reading:
* Josh Marshall with an important reminder to Dems and the media not to let the GOP’s affected aggression in the wake of the verdict mind trick them into allowing Republicans to set the terms of the discourse.
* A New York Times focus group suggests getting convicted of 34 felonies is not, in fact, good news for a presidential candidate.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You need to accept invitations to go on television? |
| 0:03.5 | Like tell the Booker, like, yes, I want to come on CNN |
| 0:06.9 | and talk about these executive orders. |
| 0:08.5 | And then we're like, what do you think about these executive orders? |
| 0:10.8 | Just say, I think that Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to avoid. of |
| 0:13.3 | just say I think that Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to avoid standing trial for |
| 0:15.9 | an insurrection like just just do it. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | In this episode, we discuss the solidifying Democratic Party response to Donald Trump's |
| 0:32.1 | felony convictions, which we're still taking shape when we recorded |
| 0:35.7 | our emergency podcast last week. Now that we see the party stance more clearly, we have some questions. Why are Democrats demuring when the facts on the |
| 0:46.0 | ground are so advantageous to them? How consistent is this with the party's past |
| 0:51.2 | practice of sort of shrugging off Trump |
| 0:54.7 | accountability moments and what would we like to see them do instead? I hope you |
| 1:00.0 | enjoy the conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing you can upgrade your |
| 1:03.2 | subscription to paid at politics.fm. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everyone welcome to the politics podcast. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm Matthew Lace yes. |
| 1:15.1 | So we put out a special episode Thursday evening. |
| 1:18.0 | You're welcome with an update for listeners |
| 1:21.2 | on the big news of Donald Trump's felony conviction and |
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