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Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the ‘Neither Right Nor Left’ Guy

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The Forward Party Is Donor Forward, Right?

I think that people vaguely sense something's wrong and you're right, because they don't have the grammar to talk about the existential nature of these problems. It really does become a, yeah, let's sort of pick the guy with the right personality. We'd be remiss to not sort of acknowledge that that kind of genuineness is filtered through gender and racial lenses pretty profoundly. But that's what I think makes the whole like Andrew Yang thing fascinating because it's not like there's a personality to glom onto.

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