Air Date: 12-17-2024
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
(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
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
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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