Monday, September 8, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 18:15)
A Rebrand for Liberals? The Political Left Looks to Change Its Language But Not Its Ideology
- Was It Something I Said? by Third Way
An Up and Coming New Democrat From Texas? He is a New Face, But the Liberal Ideas Are the Same
- The Democrat who calls Trump a child of God by The Economist
Mamdani’s New Strategy: His Leading Candidate for NYC Mayor’s Platform is Looking Less Radical, but His Ideology Hasn’t Changed
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 8, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Was it something I said? Evidently a good many Democrats are asking that question, partly because of their 2004 electoral defeat, |
| 0:22.2 | but also because, in the meantime, since the election in 2024, the party has been losing |
| 0:28.3 | voter registrations fast. Now, don't count either political party out. You go back to the early |
| 0:34.7 | 1970s, you go back to even the 1990s. There were people who said it really |
| 0:39.9 | doesn't look like the Republicans are going to be able to be a winning party again. But of course, |
| 0:45.3 | that wasn't true. And so you shouldn't count out the Democrats either. But the Democratic Party is in |
| 0:50.8 | a very difficult position right now. And that's because the big issue in politics |
| 0:54.7 | is not what just happened, but where are the voters going? And here's the point. The voters |
| 1:00.8 | aren't going in the direction of pregnant people. That has caught the attention of at least |
| 1:06.8 | some who are trying to advise the Democratic Party on how it can move forward, a group known |
| 1:12.2 | as Third Way, that's a think tank, sometimes identified as center-left, and that means not quite |
| 1:18.3 | so liberal as some of the other groups, not quite so ideologically on the left, but still, |
| 1:23.1 | it's a Democratic Party movement. It is a think tank dedicated to electing Democratic candidates, |
| 1:29.1 | and it wants the society to shift left. But it wants to do so with better marketing. |
| 1:35.3 | So third way is put out a memo to the Democrats, which is entitled, Was It Something I Said? |
| 1:40.7 | And the subtitle, well, let's put it this way. It's addressed to, quote, all who wish to |
| 1:44.8 | stop Donald Trump and MAGA. So they're addressing a memo to the opposition to the Trump |
| 1:51.4 | administration and the Republicans. That is, they're talking to the Democratic Party. They identify |
| 1:57.1 | themselves as the author third way. And then they go on to say this. For a party that |
| 2:01.5 | spends billions of dollars trying to find that perfect language to connect to voters, |
| 2:06.2 | Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases, no ordinary person would |
| 2:10.8 | ever dream of saying. The intent of this language, they went on to say, quote, is to include, |
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