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The Good Fight

Matthew Yglesias on Kamala

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Matthew Yglesias discuss Kamala Harris' strengths and vulnerabilities, and what she needs to do to win. Matthew Yglesias is a writer and journalist, co-founder of Vox, and founder of the Substack newsletter Slow Boring. His latest book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Matthew Yglesias discuss how Kamala Harris can broaden her appeal before November; what explains the lack of substantial coverage of Biden’s cognitive impairments in the mainstream press before the June debate; and how seriously we should take the evolution of economic policy in the Republican Party platform. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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She tried hard to keep convicted felons in prison in ways that alienated some left-wing people

0:39.9

who felt that she tried too hard, you know, that she pulled out too many stops on these kind of things.

0:46.3

And the best thing, the easiest thing for her to say is that like she is aware of the problems of the far left in the United States of America,

0:57.4

that she has actually taken that on in key respects.

1:01.2

And I think frankly that as a black woman she is not going to be bullied

1:06.8

by some of the people who may be able to get over on a Joe Biden or a

1:12.0

McDonaldin or some of the other people in his circle there that

1:15.8

she has a greater level of comfort with coming out and saying, you know, like her parents are immigrated to this country right and there's a great immigrant patriotism story to tell about that right that like the they did not come naive about some of the problems with the United States of America,

1:35.0

but they felt it was the greatest land of opportunity that raised their daughter there, etc,

1:40.0

that you know, she put criminals in prison because some criminals need to be in

1:45.4

prison I think her 2009 book about this called Smart on Crime is actually quite

1:52.0

good you know and just reflects a different

1:55.1

period in American politics than her 2019 campaign. And now the good fight

1:59.7

with Yasha Monck.

2:09.0

My guest today is Matt Iglesias. Matt is a co-founder of Vox who now has one of the biggest subtext called

2:16.8

slow boring not because it is boring but because he is invoking Max Weber's

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