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

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

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

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

SHOW IMAGE

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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