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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Why the GOP is SCARED, and Trump is Copying Zohran Mamdani

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Prof G Media / Vox Media

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Tarlov is joined by Gen Z political voice and commentator Aaron Parnas to break down the post-election landscape — from what Democrats can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in New York to why some of the GOP’s favorite culture-war tactics keep falling flat. They dig into Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement, the record-breaking government shutdown, and Trump’s latest standoff with Senate Republicans. Plus — could Marjorie Taylor Greene really be gearing up for a presidential run? Follow Jessica Tarlov,⁠ @JessicaTarlov⁠.  Follow Prof G,⁠ @profgalloway⁠. Follow Raging Moderates, ⁠@RagingModeratesPod⁠. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Raging Moderth. I'm Jessica Tarlov, and I'm so glad to be joined once again by my friend, Genzi's sensation of substack, YouTube, and TikTok, lawyer and political commentator, Aaron Parnas. Aaron, how about that intro?

1:05.0

I love the ever-changing intros. It's getting better and better with each time. Love it. Okay. Fantastic. Which means I have to like one up it next time.

1:12.5

100%. Or the producers do, since they're the ones who write it. I want to start with the big story this week, which was we had an election and Democrats didn't blow it. Quite the opposite. How was your election day?

1:27.0

It was a pretty fun day, honestly. A lot of

1:28.9

people were excited. Hopium. It was weird to see smiles, right? Yeah. I mean, I will say, I feel like

1:34.9

things are shifting a little bit. I don't know how to explain it. And honestly, what happened on

1:39.5

election night, I don't know that it'll translate to next year or any other election. But

1:43.0

for nine months, people were just all doom and gloom. And then Tuesday night happened. And now ever since then, it's been a completely different kind of environment. Yeah, I agree. I think it was also, and maybe this is a little bit of an inside baseball way to look at it. But because those big memos came out the week before, the deciding to win one, right, where they talked to 500,000 people who said that the Democrats were weak and woke and out of touch. And then the working class one focused on, you know, how out of touch Democrats are. It made me think, like, which narrative is correct are the electoral wins,

2:21.6

which were all the way down the ballot, right?

2:23.7

You know, we talk about New Jersey and Virginia and Mamdani here in New York, which I want

2:27.7

to get into further with you, but also things like the State House in Mississippi and

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