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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Before we begin today, I'm going to be recording an Ask Me Anything episode in a few weeks. |
0:06.0 | I imagine we're going to have a lot of questions about the election, but anything is fair game. |
0:10.6 | To submit a question, email us at Ezra Klein Show at NYTimes.com with the subject line AMA by November 17th. |
0:23.6 | From New York Times opinion, this is the Ezra Klein Show. So in my post-election essay, I said that the 2020-4 election |
0:50.0 | marked the end of the Obama coalition. |
0:53.3 | But what does that mean? Well, in part, it means that some of the Obama coalition. But what does that mean? |
0:55.3 | Well, in part, it means that some of the political strategies |
0:58.5 | that Democrats thought would turn Obama's 2008 and 2012 coalitions |
1:03.1 | into an enduring generational majority, they've failed. |
1:08.0 | Democrats worked damn hard over the past few years |
1:10.8 | to deliver what they thought, what they |
1:12.9 | were told, black and Hispanic and working class and union voters wanted. And instead of solidifying |
1:19.2 | support from those voters, they're seeing them flee to Donald Trump. But I'm also saying |
1:24.5 | something about the structure of the Democratic Party itself. |
1:30.4 | The Obama era wasn't just built around one person. |
1:35.2 | It was a collection of institutions and power bases and elite networks. |
1:41.2 | Michael Lind, a columnist tablet, the author of the book The New Class War, and a co-founder of New America, he's argued that it was kind of a political machine, |
1:45.1 | one built around urban political support, foundations, nonprofits, mass media. There are parts |
1:51.4 | of Lin's analysis I don't agree with. In particular, I think the machine has worked very |
1:55.1 | differently after Obama left the White House than it did before. I think it's been a machine |
2:00.1 | without a boss in a way that has not |
2:02.2 | worked out well for the Democratic Party. But I think seeing the Democratic Party through the lens |
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