#1677 Dems Can't Have Their Billionaires and Beat Them Too: The politics of anti-elitism

Air Date: 12-17-2024

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Changing the direction of a political party doesn't happen overnight and it usually takes a major disrupting event to shake it out of its well-wore groove. The loss of the Harris campaign to Trump and the evident desperation people have for a new economics that works for people might finally be enough to put Democrats on track to a more full-throated support of economic populism.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Jon Stewart On What Went Wrong For Democrats - The Daily Show - Air Date 11-11-24

KP 2: The Democratic Party Is A Rudderless Ship - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 11-21-24

KP 3: ‘BERNIE WAS RIGHT!’: Corporate Democrat ADMITS DEFEAT - The Kyle Kulinski Show - Air Date 11-18-24

KP 4: Assad Ousted From Syria - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 12-10-24

KP 5: Can Ben Wikler Fix The Democratic Party? - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 12-4-24

KP 6: “Get These Incels to Work” (feat. Hasan Piker) Part 1 - Pod Save America - Air Date 11-27-24


(49:33) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the Democrats perception gap and Ben Wikler for the DNC


DEEPER DIVES

(1:00:11) SECTION A - WHY DEMOCRATS LOST

A1: Man Oh Man: Why Male Voters Shifted Right - The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart - Air Date 11-21-24

A2: Why Kamala Harris lost (according to regular people) - Garrison Hayes - Air Date 12-9-24

A3: Going after the elites (with George Packer) - Stay Tuned with Preet - Air Date 12-12-24

A4: “Get These Incels to Work” (feat. Hasan Piker) Part 2 - Pod Save America - Air Date 11-27-24


(1:32:40) SECTION B - TIME TO FIGHT

B1: Where do the Democrats go from here? - BBC News - Air Date 12-7-24

B2: Henry Wallace & the Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party w/ John Nichols - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 5-21-20

B3: Why We Can_t Play Nice With the Democratic Party - The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini) - Air Date 12-10-24


(1:56:05) SECTION C - MOVING FORWARD

C1: Trump's Gilded Cabinet - The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich - Air Date 12-7-24

C2: Reconfiguring the Democratic Party - Woke AF Daily - Air Date 12-4-24

C3: Democrats shuffle leadership in prep for Trump fight; Raskin takes mantle of democratic lodestar - Alex Wagner Tonight - Air Date 12-6-24

C4: BREAKING: HUGE announcement about Democrats' future - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 12-1-24


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Description: Photo of billionaire Mark Cuban speaking into a microphone at a Harris Walz campaign event.

Credit: “Mark Cuban” by Gage Skidmore, Flickr | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Cropped

 

 

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