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The Bulwark Podcast

Sasha Issenberg: Politics, Disinformation, and 2024

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, the Trump campaign used microtargeting to suppress the Clinton vote. Since then, digital malfeasance has become the dominant subplot in our politics. How did the Biden team respond to 'Sleepy Joe' and 'Creepy Joe' in 2020, and what's the game plan for viral disinfo in '24? Issenberg joins Tim today.

show notes

By Sasha:
The Lie Detectives
The Engagement

Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going Miller. Well we have a

0:30.5

rematch officially we've all known this with President Biden and former President Trump

0:35.2

have both officially won enough delegates as of last night to be the presumptive

0:38.7

nominees for the party. Remember it's Wednesday so if you want hot political takes on that head on over to the next level feed

0:46.8

I am here today with a very smart political mind himself old friend Sasha Eisenberg

0:52.1

he is an author and journalist.

0:54.4

His brand new book is The Lie Detectives in search of a playbook for winning elections

0:58.9

in the disinformation age.

1:00.8

Remember, Sasha, he wrote the Victory Lab in 2012 about the Obama data nerds and he also wrote a magnum opus about gay marriage called the engagement.

1:09.4

We might do some gay stuff at the end.

1:10.9

Sasha, thanks for doing this brother.

1:12.4

Thanks for having me, Tim.

1:13.0

Great to be with you.

1:14.0

Before we get to your book, any big grand thoughts about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, part

1:19.7

duh and how we got here?

1:22.4

I mean, the one thing that just as somebody who's

1:24.3

dreading just the kind of soul-crushing nature of this election season we have

1:28.6

in front of us that maybe got me excited? Listen to the Bullwork podcast more.

1:33.0

That's how you can handle the crushing dread, you know?

1:36.3

Was like Trump's comments about entitlement programs on CNBC this week, which just like,

1:41.5

it was this glimmer of return to old politics like maybe

1:44.2

we'll just have you know stupid Democratic demagoguery on entitlement cuts like

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