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Pod Damn America

(preview) Things are looking Grim

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Anders breaks down Ryan Grim's new book, "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution" FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0

Yeah, and where it gets, you know, dangerous.

0:04.1

And what my, you know, certain times I've been concerned that this is what's happening.

0:08.4

And like Fetterman is a good example, someone who genuinely does not know or care about this issue.

0:13.9

And the vacuum is filled by APEC.

0:17.4

And that maybe that was going to be a possibility with AOC.

0:20.1

But it's it's not that because

0:23.0

the movement that supports her is not apak right we they have people care about Palestine and

0:29.7

whatever she drew truly believes that that movement has uh gotten her to make uh good votes she's not doesn't have a perfect record on the, on the

0:40.5

issue. And I don't know if she would still say two state solution or not. But I mean,

0:46.4

I don't, frankly, don't think that really matters what your position on the number of states is,

0:51.5

because that's like at this point, it's, it's, it's almost moot either way.

0:55.2

But, uh, but, but the, the, the important thing I took away from this is, uh,

1:01.6

message discipline and how these people should be trained to anticipate this stuff.

1:07.7

And I think sometimes on the left, we are, uh, pre-ocular. We,

1:12.2

you know, I think sometimes we throw the baby out with the bathwater in that like,

1:16.7

that's, we think, oh, that's what liberals do, right? They, they write up the policy papers.

1:22.3

They do all the message training and the hundreds of hours of message discipline and all that

1:27.4

stuff.

1:27.9

And they work throughout.

1:28.7

What we need is a ground game.

1:30.8

And if we out-organize them, then we'll win.

1:32.9

And what, you know, the sort of the verbiage and the interview performances, all the

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