Looking at the Election Results Through Rosa (and Ed) Colored Glasses

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What an election night on Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani, Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill… voters are clearly dissatisfied with the Trump administration and the Republican Party. But do these Democratic victories indicate a genuine shift against Trump-era politics? How will the Republican Party respond? What do Democrats need to do to ensure that these successes translate into future victories? David Rothkopf, Ed Luce, and Rosa Brooks are back to break down the election results and what they mean for the future of our country. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:17.0	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
0:34.6	Hello, welcome to DSR. I am D.J.R. David Rothkoff, your host, and I am joined today by two of our regulars to talk
0:44.4	about just what's been happening in the U.S. this week.
0:47.5	We've got with us Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center.
0:52.1	How are you feeling today, Rosa?
0:54.5	Oh, it's a better day than yesterday. How about that?
0:58.6	That is good. And that's, you know, that is, I think, the right way to feel. And how are you
1:03.5	feeling today, Ed? Good. I was actually in New York for most of the day. And it wasn't raining,
1:10.1	so I wasn't singing in the rain, but had
1:11.9	it been raining and had I been wearing a Macintosh, I would have been singing in the
1:16.2	rain.
1:17.2	It was a, I felt happy.
1:17.7	Well, that's good, but you know, in singing in the rain, Gene Kelly does not wear
1:22.6	a Macintosh.
1:24.9	He just wears a hat.
1:26.5	I saw the West End version and, you, and we do things differently over there.
1:31.5	Oh, yeah.
1:32.0	Well, that's true.
1:32.7	You're always better prepared for, pardon me?
1:36.3	It rains more.
1:37.1	They have to be better prepared.
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