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Explain It to Me

The future of conservatism is being forged in California

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Ezra, and Matt explain a new brand of right-wing politics rising under conditions of permanent opposition. References and further reading: Jane’s piece on the driving force that is California-style conservatism A white paper examining which voters supported Medicaid in Maine’s 2017 referendum John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck explain the 2016 presidential election through identity politics in their book Identity Crisis  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I hate the English language.

0:04.0

Do you own a French?

0:05.0

No.

0:06.0

Bonjour.

0:07.0

In France, the programme sanitaire medicaid.

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds on the box me podcast network.

0:29.0

I'm Matthew Galaisius.

0:31.0

We've got Jane coasting with us here on a special very special Tuesday as we're

0:35.5

climbed back east from California back in the studio, evading the fires that are

0:40.5

consuming the west coast of the United States.

0:43.5

And separately from that, the fires of Democrats winning house races, who soon have been

0:49.5

consuming.

0:50.5

I know.

0:51.5

So one of the, we talked about this a little bit, but previously, but the narrative on the

0:57.0

midterms has shifted a little bit since the day after election day, since Democrats did

1:01.7

quite a bit better on the west coast.

1:04.2

And it's taken a while for California's results to trickle in, but it looks like

1:08.6

Republicans are going to lose seven or eight possibly even house seats out in California,

1:14.1

which they didn't have a lot of seats in California already, but they're going in particular

1:19.6

like four seats in Orange County, Orange County, where I'm from, is now entirely blue.

1:25.8

And by the way, you know, there, there's some really interesting wins out there.

1:28.7

So one of the things we talked about on our post election episode was it looked like

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