Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5d ago

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Pod Save the World · Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

But but I I do think that voice-verified

We've seen center left pro par I mean, uh you know, shameless plug. voice-verified

I have a piece in the New York Times today about the might be for the Democratic Party in this regard. voice-verified

We have this trend of center left parties, or in Germany's case with Merz, center right parties, sometimes kind of becoming voice-verified

These defenders of of the establishment and the defenders of the norms. voice-verified

And and and you gotta shake yourself out of that and figure out a way to speak to populism, you know? voice-verified

And and and i if you don't voice-verified

Um I I I I just worry that you're gonna be in the situation where like each election the AFT's making these incremental gains and at some point voice-verified

Like maybe not at the the national level, but certainly at the state level they're gonna start winning majority. voice-verified

looks like a technocrat. voice-verified

For a year and a technocrat. voice-verified

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Yeah, look, I mean clearly voice-verified

Germany, like other countries like the United States, there's a feeling that you want to make sure that the borders are secure. voice-verified

It's a little more complicated than the EU, obviously. voice-verified

I I do think though that as in the United States, I hear you, and I I like it's it maybe the answer is not necessarily economic populism, but it is like the manner in which you do politics. voice-verified

Because I I think what happens is voice-verified

The immigration concerns get married to this concern that there's just this cluby establishment that is completely out of touch, is and is just kind of just not focused on what I care about, you know? voice-verified

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And and if you it there there have to be ways and some of it is communications, but some of it is policy, and some of it is like how you show up, some of it is how you acknowledge like what you did wrong, you know, like sometimes you can deal with voice-verified

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