"The Guy Who Got the Midterms Right."
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
OK, this is a little self-referential, but here is last week’s guest, writing about this week’s guest: CNN and The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein, writing in The Atlantic about Simon Rosenberg. “After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, Simon Rosenberg in 2022 became an overnight sensation. Rosenberg was the most visible public skeptic of the GOP-surge scenario. After the election, Vox called Rosenberg ‘the guy who got the midterms right.’” Bill has known Simon for years and wanted his take on Biden, Trump, DeSantis and the current and future standing of the Democratic and Republican Parties. You can subscribe to Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. Good to see you for another edition of the Bill Press pod. Welcome. Democrats have to stop playing defense. We have a good story to tell, and we've got to get out there and start playing offense. Amen to that. A few Democrats have |
| 0:23.6 | been saying that for years, but nobody's been saying it louder or stronger than Simon Rosenberg, |
| 0:29.4 | former advisor to President Clinton and President Obama, and founder of the New Democrat Network, |
| 0:35.7 | or NDN. And Rosenberg was almost alone in calling the 22 midterms. |
| 0:42.3 | All that talk about a GOP red wave was bullshit, Rosenberg insisted, and he turned out to be right. |
| 0:50.4 | Simon Rosenberg recently moved on from NDN to create a whole new substack called |
| 0:55.6 | Hopium Chronicles, where he says he's going to focus on what are today's two biggest challenges. |
| 1:02.8 | How do we prevent climate change from overwhelming the world that we know, and most important |
| 1:08.1 | of all, can our democracy survive the attacks from all sides today? |
| 1:14.2 | We caught up with Simon Rosenberg recently to talk about his new venture and his advice for the Democratic Party. |
| 1:21.5 | Hello, Simon. Good to talk to you again and welcome to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:25.9 | It's good to be here, Bill. It's good to see you again. |
| 1:28.7 | Thank you so much. So, you know, you've had a, look, a great run with the new Democratic network, |
| 1:34.4 | new Democrat network. And now you're off on a whole new adventure, Hopium Chronicles. Tell us about it. |
| 1:41.3 | Why did you, you know, walk away from the NDN? And then what's the mission of the |
| 1:49.4 | Hopium Chronicles? Yeah, you know, I, as you may know, I mean, I sort of was the warrior |
| 1:56.3 | against the Red Wave concept and the work that I did received a lot of attention. And I, you know, |
| 2:02.2 | I got 100 million Twitter views from mid-October to early November. And I spoke to dozens of grassroots |
| 2:09.5 | groups who were out there fighting for all of us. And frankly, this whole adventure changed me. |
| 2:15.8 | I mean, I really learned about where the modern |
| 2:19.0 | Democratic Party is and really felt motivated by the passion of the grassroots for making |
| 2:25.3 | sure that freedom and democracy prevailed. And I felt that I had a different role now. And, |
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