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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt and Brian review the incoming Trump administration as it takes shape, and what if anything Democrats can do, without official power or a real media arm, to limit the damage.
* Who has Trump nominated already, and who is he being gun-shy about, given that some of his loyalists would have a hard time getting confirmed by the incoming Senate?
* Can Democrats quickly shift gears into productive opposition, when so much of their infrastructure is built around intra-left discourse.
* How could Democrats (or how would Brian) go about building and reforming media to reach marginal voters who don’t tune in to mainstream organs or sophisticated political media?
Then, behind the paywall, Matt and Brian discuss the challenges progressive culture might pose to the establishment of a bigger tent, and more robust messaging. Would a new liberal media project tolerate elevating people who aren’t committed movement progressives? How can pro-liberal, pro-Democratic Party ideas better infiltrate non-political spheres of media, from pop culture to fitness to cooking? Given how much liberal funders already spend on “unhelpful” projects, is there any reason not to try?
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Further reading:
* Brian’s article pleading with Democrats to take their media deficit seriously, and do something about it.
* Matt on how Democrats can broaden their own tent (ideally while their new media works at shrinking the GOP tent).
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| 0:00.0 | Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi called Donald Trump morbidly obese? |
| 0:04.0 | I think she faced a tiny, tiny bit of pushback, but mostly people were just happy. |
| 0:08.9 | You know, that she went out there and did it, just like he's a slob. |
| 0:11.8 | I think that if Democrats change nothing, Donald Trump's going to take office. |
| 0:15.9 | We must body shame Donald Trump. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:26.5 | This is our first episode since Kamala Harris officially lost the 2024 election, and we've |
| 0:32.2 | had about a week to brace ourselves for the incoming Trump administration. |
| 0:37.1 | Democrats are mired in recriminations, as you'd expect after losing. |
| 0:41.0 | But we want to try something a little different here. |
| 0:43.8 | We want to talk through how our differing views of the Democratic Party's liabilities |
| 0:49.3 | headed into the election can actually work together in a complementary way as Democrats regroup. |
| 0:56.8 | I hope you enjoyed the conversation. |
| 0:58.6 | And if you want to hear the whole thing, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at |
| 1:01.8 | politics.fm. |
| 1:07.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to the politics podcast. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm Matthew Glacius. So last time we connected here, I think podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. I'm Matthew Glazias. |
| 1:11.8 | So last time we connected here, I think Matt and I were both clinging to the dying hope that there might be enough votes in Detroit and Milwaukee and Philadelphia to save America from fascism. |
| 1:23.5 | And then like 30 minutes after we finished recording Fox News called the election for Donald Trump. |
| 1:29.3 | I think we picked the timing of when to go live actually really well. |
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