Ben Meiselas

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Breaking Afternoon UN Updates with Ben 9/22/2026 · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

It's always telling on themselves. matched

Here, play this clip. matched

and again they're just always telling on themselves right they're always telling on themselves and this is again why i think you know and i talk about this in the book the way out of this hell matched

is we have to look beyond the gamified politics of this team versus that team. matched

When you treat politics like, again, Mets versus Yankees or Celtics versus Lakers, I say it like this. matched

Just think about what sports team do you really like, right? matched

Let's just say for the sake of growing up in New York, right, a Mets fan, right? matched

And so when you're a Mets fan versus a Yankees fan, matched

Could you ever see yourself ever becoming a Yankees fan if you are a Mets fan, right? matched

You can never see it. matched

So what if all of a sudden even the Mets start like, you know, making fun of you or being rude to you and you think to yourself, man, the Mets, they just became dicks. matched

Like what the hell happened? matched

Why are the Mets such – the Mets happened to – matched

torture your childhood if you're a Mets fan, but I won't go there right now. matched

Like, why are they being, why are they be, but would you still be like, I'm going to join the Yankees, right? matched

So think about that example, but now pull back. matched

and think about something that's even more deeply and core rooted than Mets versus Yankees, but you think about in the context of Democrats and Republicans, your very core identity of how your parents told you to live, how you've lived and how intrinsic that is. matched

And then you wonder, well, how could there still be 29% approval or 32% approval? matched

And the divisions and the tribalism of the political parties, it's gotten so much worse, especially as you've had, you know, I think a lot of right wing propaganda operations launching post Nixon in order to. matched

How do we help in the future, future Nixons? matched

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