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

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Joe Biden, You're Not Left. You Were Not Right.

There's something more that people expect from politics than somebody who's going to flatter their sensibilities and seem like a stable, easygoing, kind of not PC guy. We saw that with Obama. They're both the third way guys. So that's what's so funny about this whole thing is that they won. And economically, again, maybe they're more pro union than they'd like, but like they've mostly won. Like Yang likes is, you know, I'm not left. You were not right. I'm like, yeah, you're fucking a Democratic Party."

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