Charles Duhigg

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The Bulwark Daily · Charles Duhigg: What MAGA Can Teach Democrats · 24 Feb 2026 podcast

There's a lot not to like.

We're not talking about any of the ideology.

We're talking about learning from the tactics.

We're just talking about strategy.

So we are living through this golden age of understanding communication because of advances in neural imaging and data collection.

For the first time, we really understand what's happening inside people's brains when they communicate.

And what we've discovered is that

One of the big mistakes we make when we're having a conversation is that we think we know what that conversation is about, right?

Like I'm talking to you about politics, or I'm talking to you about where to go on vacation next week, or you're talking to your husband about where to go to dinner.

But when researchers look inside people's brains as they talk, what they find is that people are having all kinds of different conversations all at once.

And in general, these conversations, they tend to fall into one of these three buckets.

There's these practical conversations where we're making plans together, where we're solving problems together.

And then there's emotional conversations where I tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't want you to solve my feelings.

I want you to empathize.

And then there's social conversations, which are a lot of politics conversations are this, where we're talking about identities.

We're talking about what we think of other people, what matters to us as values.

And what researchers have found is that if we're not having the same kind of conversation at the same moment, we cannot fully hear each other.

And so one of the big arguments of super communicators is there is a science to how we communicate.

There are skills that we can learn to become better communicators.

And when we learn those skills, it teaches us how to match each other better, have the same kind of conversation.

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