The Jackpod: Off the mat
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on how the Democrats could take a leaf from the British parliamentary system to break out of their opinion poll slump.
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| 0:28.7 | executive compensation. I'm Dory Shimer, filling in for Megna Chukrabardi, and this is The Jackpot, where |
| 0:38.4 | on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that |
| 0:43.6 | brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:46.6 | Hello, Jack. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello, Derry. |
| 0:49.7 | It's episode 68. |
| 0:51.7 | What's the headline? |
| 0:53.2 | Off the mat. Tell us more. Well, this alludes to the latest |
| 1:00.2 | poll, Kwynipiac this morning. This is Thursday. Only 28% of Americans approve of how |
| 1:07.8 | Democrats in Congress are doing their job. |
| 1:11.5 | That is an all-time low. |
| 1:14.6 | The question is, how can the Democrats get off the mat? |
| 1:19.6 | It might seem a superficial concern in a week that has seen |
| 1:25.0 | Donald Trump essentially play the role of Neville Chamberlain and |
| 1:30.5 | concede to the dictator everything the dictator wanted and more. There can be no more |
| 1:37.5 | disgraceful episode in American foreign policy exists, and it is a shameful, ignominious moment with the president calling |
| 1:49.3 | President Zelensky a dictator and a word he's never used about the real Russian dictator, |
| 1:56.0 | Putin. It goes beyond the exaggeration to say how this moment is going to live in shame. |
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