Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, although today we're sharing a sample of this week's episode of our other show, solved.

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the Best of Left YouTube channel and catching every episode of Solved there. And now here's a few

minutes for free to wet your appetite,

but just like Best of the Left, the real benefits kick in when you hear the whole show,

which is greater than the sum of its parts. Today, we'll be discussing how often and how

thoroughly the Left is right about stuff, generally, because it's like a point that we

should probably make more often. Here's a quick preview of things that essentially only progressives

of their day believed first before everyone else eventually caught on. Going back a ways, abolition

of slavery, banning child

labor, women's suffrage, universal civil rights, protesting the Vietnam War, opposing South African

apartheid, opposing the Iraq War, supporting marriage equality, fighting against inequality,

and for economic populism as a bulwark against Trumpism.

The idea that Biden obviously shouldn't have run for a second term, plus his cognitive

decline that was on display for everyone.

The threat to abortion rights and the fall of Roe v. Wade that was absolutely inevitable

if we kept electing the Republican presidents.

Israel's genocide in Gaza, and warnings about

Trump's fascist aspirations going back at least a decade. And that is definitely not an

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