Ron Brownstein on Filibuster, Fear of Demographic Change and the GOP, Biden's Temperament

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Joe is joined by Atlantic Senior Editor and CNN correspondent Ron Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) this week. The Republicans enjoy a structural advantage in the Senate, but that's amplified even more by the age and racial makeup of the American electorate at large. Ron explains why the Trump movement and the Nixon movements are similar, and what that means for the future of elections in the country. Also, Ron is a bit more bullish about the potential for Democrats to outperform expectations in the 2022 midterms. He explains why, and he and Joe get into the strategy needed for Democratic campaigns to motivate people to vote for good candidates, but also to sound the alarm about the rise of authoritarianism. Then, a discussion about President Biden's unique temperament, which does not lend itself to the urgent/hair-on-fire moment we're in with the Republican Party. Biden's popularity is likely because of his place as a vestige of politics long gone, but is his calming temperament actually a disadvantage politically when it comes to the urgency of the moment? Buy Ron's book, Rock Me On The Water, here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/rock-me-on-the-water-ronald-brownstein Check out Ron's analysis of 2022 here: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/politics/democrats-2022-turnout-congress/index.htmlSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.
0:11.8	This week we welcome my friend Ron Brownstein,
0:14.0	senior editor at the Atlantic, CNN analyst,
0:17.4	and author.
0:18.5	Ron, glad to have you on.
0:20.5	Joe, great to be here. Are we going to discuss the improvement of dining options in Des Moines
0:26.1	since you first encountered it in 1984?
0:30.2	Yes, a long time ago.
0:32.2	That's a long way back.
0:34.0	You know, but I also want to talk to you about,
0:35.0	rock me on the water, your book about,
0:38.0	LA, yeah.
0:40.0	Well, I grew, I don't know if you know this,
0:42.0	so I grew up in Los Angeles, and that was exactly my high watermark
0:46.1	there, high school kid in the mid to late 70s
0:51.0	before I went, came east to work in politics but I love the book and I highly
0:57.7	recommend it to people and it really seems to I think you know in a lot of ways get to the impact of that that time and that place
1:09.6	on a lot of what we're seeing today a lot of the ripples have come through.
1:14.0	Yeah well I mean the book is about the really the confluence the incredible constellation of
1:19.8	talent that came together in LA in the late 60s kind of cresting in the early
1:24.7	1970s in music, movies, and television simultaneously. I mean you had working
1:30.1	literally blocks from each other, you know Jackson Brown, Johnny Mitchell, the Eagles, Linda Ronset on one hand,
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