Should Activists Run the Democratic Party?
Pantsuit Politics
Lemonada Media
4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Again, I'm not mad at activists, that's their job. |
| 0:02.4 | Their job is to not be squishy, |
| 0:04.8 | but I think the difficulty of some of these issues |
| 0:07.2 | that we're facing, particularly when it comes to race, |
| 0:10.8 | it just becomes the only voice in the room, |
| 0:12.9 | and you are a bad person. |
| 0:15.0 | If you are not standing 100% behind that voice, |
| 0:19.4 | and I just think that that is difficult electorally, |
| 0:23.4 | because people vote for lots of reasons. |
| 0:25.2 | They don't tweet for lots of reasons. |
| 0:27.0 | The tweet has to be one position, |
| 0:29.2 | but nobody's taken a single position |
| 0:30.8 | into the voting booth with them, |
| 0:31.8 | bear taking the entire complexity of their life experience. |
| 0:35.8 | This is Sarah Stewart Holland, and this is Beth Silverce. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you for joining us for Pant suit Politics. |
| 1:02.2 | Hello, we are so grateful that you joined us today |
| 1:04.4 | for a new episode of Pant suit Politics. |
| 1:06.6 | On Today's show, we're going to discuss the tension |
| 1:08.6 | around Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:10.4 | Then we'll give ourselves some space to talk through a topic |
| 1:13.0 | that keeps coming up kind of tangentially |
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