What Democrats Got Wrong & What They Can Learn from Trump | Ro Khanna
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Ro Khanna about why Democrats have become the party of defending institutions and the status quo; how offshoring has hurt the working class; why Elon Musk's efforts to expose wasteful government spending is misguided; concerns over the constitutionality of pausing government payments without congressional approval; the importance of transparency and upholding the power of the purse; and whether radical measures are needed to fix government corruption and inefficiency; the importance of open debate and resisting cancel culture; agreements and disagreements on trade, tariffs, and industrial policy, including overlap with Trump's views; the discussion on the Department of Education's role and federal funding in public schools; and differing perspectives on school choice versus public education; the Democratic Party's focus on gender and race issues; why gender identity should be a personal choice and not a matter of government intervention; how to handle transgender athletes in sports; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that what Donald Trump has done is defeated the establishments of both parties. |
| 0:05.0 | And I say, look, Trump took over the Republican Party in a matter of years. |
| 0:09.4 | I mean, I remember telling to Kevin McCarthy after January 6th. |
| 0:12.7 | And I said, you know, Kevin, I think Trump may still be your nominee. |
| 0:15.6 | He said, oh, he's done. |
| 0:16.4 | No way. |
| 0:17.2 | Never. |
| 0:18.1 | And so what Trump shows is that people dislike the status quo. |
| 0:24.2 | They're frustrated with a lot of the forces of globalization and the forces that took away their livelihoods and their dignity. |
| 0:32.0 | And they're looking for a new approach in both parties. |
| 0:46.7 | All right, Congressman Rokana, I have to say, I'm going to repeat what I just said to you privately. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm very, very happy to have you here and have this opportunity to chat with you because |
| 0:51.7 | I can't get many Democrats to talk to me. |
| 0:54.7 | I don't get that. Yeah. Do I seem scary to you? You look fine so far. I'll let you know |
| 0:59.7 | at the end of the interview. But, you know, I mean, our country was founded on spirited debate, |
| 1:06.1 | a clash of ideas. I just don't get why we've all been in our own cello. So I appreciate you're having me on. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. Well, look, I often talk about you on the show and I say you're on my kind of short list |
| 1:16.7 | of sane Democrats. I do obviously want to do a little autopsy on what has happened to the Democrat |
| 1:23.0 | party. Right. I was a Democrat for most of my life. The last two Democrats, we did a little |
| 1:29.0 | digging before you came in. The last two Democrats I've had on my show were Bobby Kennedy, |
| 1:34.8 | who ran as a Democrat, no longer a Democrat, and Tulsi Gabbard, who only four years ago ran. |
| 1:40.9 | Was a Bernie Sanders supporter. Right. And now Bernie's not too thrilled with her. |
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