The Leftist Takeover Edition

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Slate's Jordan Weissmann tells guest host Sean McElwee which presidential candidates' signature ideas are hot (and which are not). In the interview, the Green New Deal isn't just a set of climate policies—it's a chance to break with the uneven benefits afforded by the original New Deal and other progressive policies. Julian Brave NoiseCat (McElwee's colleague at Data for Progress) and activist Adrien Salazar (of the think tank Demos) are in the studio to share their expertise on the stimulus package. In the Spiel, McElwee digs into polling results from his own Data for Progress. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, August 15th, 2019 from Slate, it's the GIST.
0:07.8	I'm Sean McAwey sitting in from Mike Pesca.
0:10.2	I'm a co-founder of Data for Progress, a progressive thing tank and a general pain in the
0:14.0	ass for centrists like Mike.
0:16.1	In my one day of guest hosting, I aim to make the GIST competitive with the wheat.
0:21.2	So we're going to have a deep dive on politics and the spiel.
0:24.9	And right here at the top, I'm joined by Jordan Weissman, a man who I've spent quite a
0:29.2	couple of years harassing and after that, a couple of years becoming a close friend of.
0:33.8	Oh my God.
0:34.8	Yeah, it's been years of harassment.
0:38.1	But I feel like we are proof that a low key commie and a mushy Warren Democrat can still
0:47.1	be friends.
0:48.1	Which one am I?
0:49.1	Yeah, I know.
0:52.8	And just to start off, I want to do a rapid fire on what's going on in the 2020 ideas
0:59.1	primary primary ideas.
1:00.9	Let's talk about the ideas.
1:02.8	Yeah, like a sort of Rorschach, sorry, a Rorschach blot of policy.
1:08.8	You say some words and I interpret it.
1:10.6	Okay.
1:11.6	Let's say you're just saying policy.
1:13.1	I'm going to say policy.
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