Rants and raves of 2022

KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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352865, News

4.2 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a special show to end the year, Left, Right & Center recaps some of the most important political moments of 2022, and what it all means as we head into the new year.

The midterm elections revealed the declining support for former President Donald Trump amid losses for many of the candidates he backed. Is there a growing part of the electorate that’s craving less chaos? How are both parties responding to lessons learned?

And the Democratic party found some success by donating money to Republican candidates they believed they could beat in the midterms. Is that a blueprint they’ll turn to again? Or is that bad for democracy?

Plus, it’s been more than 300 days since Russia officially invaded Ukraine. How consequential is this war on Ukraine? What’s at stake globally? And could the Ukrainians grab the upper hand next year?

Host David Greene discusses with Mo Elleithee, executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, on the left; and Sarah Isgur, staff writer at The Dispatch, on the right.

Plus, the panelists share their New Year’s resolutions.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's David Green here on the Co-Founder of Fearless Media and I'm your host here on
0:04.8	left, right, and center.
0:05.8	This is the show where we dig into all of those political issues, even the complicated
0:10.3	ones that might be dividing your own family these days.
0:13.7	Well, it is finally the end of 2022 and I don't know if breathing aside for leaf is the
0:19.2	right emotion.
0:21.0	I mean, regardless of whether you think there's a good year, bad year, it was a busy year
0:25.5	in the news all over the United States, all over the world, all over different walks of
0:30.8	life.
0:31.8	And to wrap things up here at left, right, and center, we're going to do something a little
0:34.8	different.
0:35.8	We're going to have our panel share their larger rants and raves for 2022, not just making
0:41.2	that a couple minutes of our show.
0:43.1	And also maybe some thoughts on what 2023 is going to bring.
0:47.5	So let's bring in our panel and our friends.
0:50.6	We have Moelathy on the left.
0:52.9	Thank you, director at Georgetown's Institute of Politics and Public Service, also communications
0:57.3	director for the Democratic National Committee and an advisor to Hillary Clinton and Sarah
1:02.0	Isger on the right.
1:03.6	She is a lawyer, she is staff writer at the dispatch and she was spokesperson at the Department
1:07.3	of Justice under President Trump.
1:09.1	Hello to both of you and happy early New Year's.
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