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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Matt and Brian examine the quadrennial liberal October panic, and think through practical ways for Democrats to close strong:

* Is it possible to increase the salience of Democrats’ top issues (abortion, democracy, and health care) when Trump is hoovering up attention to his fascist freakshow?

* Might the fascist freakshow, for perverse reasons, be helping Trump keep the race close?

* To what extent should working the media refs to focus on Trump outrages fit into the plan?

SPOILERS:

Matt answers those questions: Yes, maybe, and very little.

Brian answers them: Maybe, no, quite a bit.

Then, behind the paywall, a granular look at why Democrats shouldn’t fear racial depolarization. Have Democrats (wrongly) convinced themselves that they can’t increase their share of the white vote? Does it matter if homing in on issues like abortion and anti-fascism makes the Democratic coalition a little less rainbow? Are these issues resonant enough to deliver Kamala Harris a victory if Trump and his corrupt allies stage a rat fuck late in October?

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0:00.0	if you have an opportunity to get a mention of abortion January 6th health care in and you don't take it,
0:10.0	you know, like he reminds me if Fidel Castro, if Fidel Castro wanted to ban abortion and take
0:17.3	away your health care.
0:18.3	Ha ha ha.
0:19.3	Hey everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics
0:26.3	podcast this week Matt and I will talk about Donald Trump's increasingly
0:31.4	fascistic and also maybe increasingly demented closing message
0:37.4	now that we're three weeks out from the election, whether polls are tightening
0:41.8	ever so slightly
0:43.3	because of rather than in spite of this late campaign
0:47.9	derangement.
0:49.2	And what that says about the state of the Kamala Harris campaign. I hope you enjoy or at least get a lot out of this
0:56.7	conversation. And if you want to hear the whole thing you can upgrade to paid at politics dot fm. Hey everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler.
1:09.0	I'm Matthew Glesias.
1:11.0	So a couple of things have happened since we recorded last week's episode. I think that right
1:17.5	around this time last week is when I noticed at least that Democrats were having this weird crisis of confidence which they seem to have every four years
1:26.7	ahead of an election even though at that point at least like nothing had changed in the polls at all
1:32.3	but starting around then Trump had changed in the polls at all.
1:33.2	But starting around then, Trump scheduled a series of rallies in states that he's just not
1:38.6	going to win, right?
1:40.8	He went to Aurora, Colorado. He went to Coachella, California. And I guess, I guess
1:46.9	charitably, you could say he did these rallies to make him feel better because
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