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The Bulwark Podcast

Ruy Teixeira: Biden’s Working Class Blues

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The system feels rigged for the millionaires and the billionaires, and the populist red lights are flashing for 2024. Can the Democrats get back to being for the little guy, or will the man with the golden toilets convince them he's on their side? The Liberal Patriot's Ruy Teixeira joins Charlie Sykes.

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0:00.0

Sure, this is Peloton. This is a 15 minute low impact ride. But so is this.

0:07.1

We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation.

0:10.4

And even this. We get here in with a 20 minute hip-hop shadow boxes session.

0:16.5

Ah what more could you ask for? Well with thousands of classes on our bike treading

0:20.9

app there's more to Peloton that you might have thought.

0:23.8

This is Peloton.

0:25.8

Internet connection and Peloton all acts as membership required. C1 Peloton.

0:29.2

Go. UK. Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sykes. It is time for tough love.

0:42.4

I know you didn't wake up today saying,

0:44.6

hey, I hope the Bullwork Podcast has some tough love. You know, I want more fan service.

0:49.3

I want you to tell me that everything is going to be okay. Well, I'm sorry to tell you you've probably come to the

0:55.2

wrong place. We are joined by my good friend Ruite to share a senior fellow

0:59.2

with the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions.

1:04.4

Rui, you have been in progressive politics for a very, very long time.

1:10.0

You bring a lot of street cred to this. But as I was mentioned to you right before we started, there's

1:15.8

a lot of resistance, isn't there, to the tough love trying to explain to Democrats why you have a problem on economics, why you have a problem

1:26.3

when it comes to the working class. I just sense that there is this sense of

1:32.1

denialism that's kind of you know built in and

1:34.9

we're going to get lots of comments saying well I don't want to listen to all of

1:38.1

this because if we just put our heads in the sand apparently the argument is we just put our heads in the sand, apparently the argument is. We just put our heads in the sand about these difficulties,

1:45.4

they will just go away, they will magically go away.

1:48.4

But you're sounding the alarm for a reason, right?

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