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Can you imagine an amorphous figure that's a progressive populist? It would be very difficult at this point, just because a huge portion of the multiracial working class has shifted to the right. But I could see it. I mean, look. People change their
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...political capital and certainly more receptivity even from his enemies or from his political enemies to accept the policies that he then enacts.
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...you get populism is slow growth. Right? Because slow growth puts everybody in the mind of zero sum, right? Everything becomes a zero sum kind of fight for resources, because people don't think that there's a lot of opportunity in the future. Yep. And
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...populism really is on culture. Trans, in particular, orientation about actually, immigration may be the biggest one. Because if you look at the history of Bernie Sanders, you know, Bernie Sanders was a person who railed against open borders and again
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Those same people and many others believe that democracies would be very bad at breaking promises because, as you mentioned in the intro, right, would seem to make sense that if you're trying to get elected, it's just not in your interest to try to b
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That that it is in order to actually capture the imagination of the American people, you almost always have to run inside your own party against your own party. So you saw this most obviously with president Trump, but this is clearly true with Barack
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For reasons that I'm not sure I entirely understand, the parties have gotten really good, historically, bizarrely good, at getting each group to come to the polls with about 48%, such that every election is a battle over the next 1.5%. And in a world
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Ben, maybe I'll let you kind of answer the question from your perspective. Do you think there is any chance that a swing state could be swung by, you know, this strategy? And in addition to that, Trump is a populist. All these people and his biggest
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...politically and demographically, because we are proving through my elections and through the elections that we have for these initiatives,
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The idea that you would have somebody as self described socialist running for president and coming anywhere near the Democratic nomination. That was unthinkable in 2004. And by 2016, it almost happened. And Donald Trump is another thing. Donald Trump
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wages, and they're seeing their kids not be able to get jobs at 9%. This is what's concerning Americans. Trump has failed the middle class. That's the bottom line here. I don't think that that's true. The country does. 66% of them. I think everybody
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it caused a lot of problems. So making things illegal and putting people in jail is not necessarily the right decision, but having introducing friction into decision making might be okay. Right? I love that. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Is democr
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