Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate

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Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Welcome to Weeds 2020! Every other Saturday Ezra and Matt will be exploring a wide range of topics related to the 2020 race. Since the Nevada caucuses, Bernie Sanders has become the clear frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic primary, spurring lots of debate over whether he could win in the general election. We discuss where the electability conversation often goes off-the-rails, why discussing electability in 2020 is so different than 1964 or 1972, the case for and against Bernie’s electability prospects, and the strongest attacks that Trump could make against Sanders and Joe Biden. Then, we discuss Ezra’s favorite topic of all time: the filibuster. Ezra gives a brief history of this weird procedural tool, and we discuss why so many current Senators are against eliminating it. Resources: "Bernie Sanders can unify Democrats and beat Trump in 2020" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "The case for Elizabeth Warren" by Ezra Klein, Vox "How the filibuster broke the US Senate" by Alvin Chang, Vox "Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity" by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer "The Sixty Trillion Dollar Man" by Ronald brownstein, Atlantic "The Day One Agenda" by David Dayen, American Prospect Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want to vote for Bernie Sanders because you feel good about his program
0:04.0	because you don't like the banks on Wall Street or you don't like pharmaceuticals,
0:09.0	that's completely legitimate. I understand that.
0:12.0	If you're voting for him because you
0:14.0	think he'll win the election because he'll galvanize here to four sleepy
0:19.1	parts of the electorate, then politically you're a fool. Hello,
0:25.0	welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:32.0	I'm Matthew Iglesias
0:33.4	joined today by Ezra Klein. This is part of we are going to be doing the Weeds on
0:38.2	Saturday at least through the election
0:45.0	season and that's going to be switching with interviews by
0:49.0	Jane Kosten with some of the thinkers and actors
0:51.0	movers and shakers in the conservative world, so we are trying to do more weeds.
0:56.4	All weeds, everything.
0:58.0	Related to that, I do want to make a quick job announcement, which is not specifically
1:01.8	weeds, but is aedsish set of topics.
1:04.1	So we are hiring for a politics reporter and a race reporter at Vox or some other jobs up as well,
1:09.2	but those are specifically ones I want to push to the weeds audience.
1:12.6	Those jobs will only be open for applications
1:15.4	for another week or two, depending.
1:17.2	So go to VoxMedia.com slash careers,
1:19.7	or just go to VoxMedia.com and find the careers tab
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