The republican party has actually grown quite savy about how to mobilize through racism on emigration policy, foreign policy. At the same time, knows that it must expand its base, and is expanding its base to include modestly, too extremely socially conservative, black and latinex voters. And i think while i agree with nikil that the the d and c is also attempts to be tactical about using an mobilizing race, it tends to be more ham handed in the ways that it does it. I mean, all i have to do is say comola harris to make that point.
Everyone feels bad right now because conditions are awful and the outlook is bleak. What is going on, and where might things be headed? How might we become unstuck from this interregnum? Dan interviews returning guests Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Wendy Brown.
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