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The Bitchuation Room

Organizing Places Democrats Left Behind with Jonathan Smucker (BONUS!)

The Bitchuation Room

TYT Network

News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Democrats have been “bleeding their working-class multi-racial base” for years. That's according to Pennsylvania organizer and strategist Jonathan Smucker who joined Francesca and comedian Nato Green to discuss how an effective grassroots strategy helped deliver Biden a victory, the need for better party messaging, and how to win real progressive power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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when you realize that there's a lot of people who would rather maintain their jobs

0:04.7

and their status in a party that loses, then lose their jobs or their status in a party that

0:10.4

wins.

0:11.4

Oh God, dude, that was like, I felt like you punch me in the stomach. What is your girlfriend, Jessica Fiorentini.

0:33.8

This is the Bituation Room Podcast Live.

0:37.2

It is a bonus.

0:40.2

I'm sorry, just out the gate, but yeah bonus episode oh shit oh shit

0:48.0

caught you caught you doing something weird probably I don't know is it late is it early you guys

0:55.7

we're going live right now because we have a very special guest Jonathan

1:00.0

Matthew Smucker on political strategist, an organizer is here.

1:05.0

He is the author of a couple of really dope books, a really, really good shit.

1:11.0

We're going to get into it, we're going to get heady. We're going to get into it we're going to get heady we're going to talk

1:14.3

specifically about where he's at which is Pennsylvania Pennsylvania which did

1:19.1

go for Biden went for Trump in 2016 went for in 2020, and thanks to the hard work of grassroots

1:25.5

organizers like my guest.

1:28.4

And he's going to tell us how he did it, what it was to talk to the folks on the ground and thoughts on the

1:34.4

Democratic Party going forward especially in the face of this coup you guys

1:39.4

there's there might be a coup we might have to like get out and protest. I already made a sign out of cue cards.

1:47.6

Okay, it's just like it's too much. No, but if you missed the news today,

1:52.4

congratulations, you really did yourself a big fable favey fave.

1:55.6

But Trump is trying to put the squeeze on state lawmakers, just straight up going for the legislature's Republican controlled legislatures trying to get

2:07.0

specifically Michigan Republicans to not recognize

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