Taking January 6 Seriously AND Literally
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech a good speech? (No spoilers.)
* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech good politics? (No spoilers.)
* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech true? (Spoiler: Yes.)
* How the truth of what Biden said affects the question of whether liberals should support Nikki Haley in open-primary states.
* Glenn Greenwald’s imputation that Haley is worse than Trump, and only Democratic party hacks would prefer her to him.
Plus, a Politix first: Twitter’s Will Stancil joins Matt and Brian as the show’s inaugural guest to discuss and debate the role of vibes in politics, and what if anything liberals, progressives, and Democrats can do to improve public opinion given the fractious nature of the center-left coalition.
Further reading:
* Brian on Biden’s pivotal speech.
* Matt on how Trump will make material conditions (and thus maybe vibes?) worse.
* Will on the social layer of politics (vibes).
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| 0:00.0 | If we're gonna say in March like Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, like you gotta try to urge people |
| 0:07.6 | to address that threat while they can. |
| 0:10.1 | Yeah, okay, so let's talk about that because our conversation about this from last week generated some some like backlash |
| 0:18.1 | Yeah, I did post |
| 0:20.1 | Like Greenwall, thanks for war mongers, I don't know. Right. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to politics, the podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew |
| 0:32.2 | Gracias. This week Joe |
| 0:33.6 | Biden took a flying leap into the general election with a big speech |
| 0:37.7 | commemorating the anniversary of January 6th and made some other high-profile |
| 0:41.6 | remarks about Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 0:45.3 | We'll take a look at that. Then we'll take the case that Biden made against Trump and apply it to the question that we discussed last week, which was, |
| 0:53.4 | should liberals try to help Nicky Haley win the Republican nomination? |
| 0:58.0 | Or is that just something that, quote unquote, the worst Democratic Party hacks believe. |
| 1:04.0 | That's you, right? |
| 1:05.0 | That's me, and I think, I think Chris Hayes, too, |
| 1:09.0 | got tagged with worst Democratic Party hack label. |
| 1:13.0 | And then a politics first we have a guest this week. |
| 1:15.5 | We'll discuss the Vives theory of politics with Will Stancell. |
| 1:19.5 | He's a Metro policy researcher and a very spirited Twitterer twitterer twitter a twitterer who I think an exer who I think maybe single-handedly |
| 1:29.8 | fixed economic sentiment by dunking on people who were saying false things about the economy. |
| 1:34.8 | The dream. |
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