What Democrats Could Learn from Republicans with Brian Beutler

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

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🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week, a Crooked Media crossover event as Brian Beutler, host of Positively Dreadful, sits down with Jon to talk all the things Democrats could learn from Republicans. Yep, you read that right. Brian makes the case that when it comes to messaging, Democrats should be less shy and spend more energy drawing attention to Republican scandals and controversies — just like the GOP did for Hillary’s emails, the migrant caravan, or crime. He talks to Jon about the obstacles in front of the Democratic party, what will matter to swing voters in 2024, and how the Republican Party is already on the hunt for the next Benghazi.

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0:31.3	get your podcast. Can Democrats do a better job of making the people on TV and on social media
0:40.4	who disseminate Joe Biden's message and torque it and make them talk about that more, right? So he
0:46.5	says, give me that house and two more Democratic senators and I'll sign a bill codifying
0:52.3	row in January, like crystal clean message, beautiful message, simple to understand.
0:57.4	You also want the senators to be saying that and you want them maybe even to be like proving it.
1:02.3	Yeah. Take another vote. We got 48 votes to change the filibuster and codify row. That means
1:06.4	two more and we got it done, right? There's also going to be some asshole on TV who's like,
1:11.4	well, this is just a show vote. This is like a politics blah, blah, blah, blah, like Democrats are
1:15.7	just playing for the cameras in it. It's like, okay, yes, we are playing for the cameras to tell
1:20.8	America about this. And now instead of like playing random clips of somebody getting beaten
1:26.4	up on the subway, the TV is chitter chattering about how Rome might be codified in January,
1:31.7	but it will require this. I'm John Favreau. Welcome to offline.
1:38.3	Hey, everyone. My guest today is Crooked Media's own Brian Boyler, our editor in chief and host
1:43.9	of Positively Dreadful. So we're trying something a little different for this episode.
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