Dave Weigel

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283 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Today, Explained · “Woke 1 was crazy” · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

You've lived through this comeback where every year there are off-cycle Supreme Court elections where Democrats went from a my minority on the state Supreme Court to winning it. matched

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The goal of all this is just setting the party up for to get a governing trifecta and do big things this year. matched

That was more important to them than uh the ideological fight for what kind of governor there would be. matched

Yeah, there is a conversation on the left about how to get past a couple of of their positions because media is very flat now. matched

Uh if you said something five years ago and it's on video or it's on audio, it doesn't matter. matched

You can explain it, it's still gonna be used against you and it could just be used against you for free. matched

You don't need to pay money on uh in a TV ad. matched

You could just get it into people's social media feeds. matched

So the left is trying to win with the baggage of a lot of cultural positions it has taken. matched

That's some that are shared by Democrats. matched

For example, Minnesota also had primaries yesterday. matched

The Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan won by landslide the Senate nomination. matched

Democrats were worried at one level about uh, oh, can she be tied to the fraud cases in the state? matched

A little bit complicated story there, where Democrats will tell you they. matched

They put in a bunch of anti-fraud measures as soon as this issue, the issue of people stealing from COVID funds and welfare funds blew up in 2021. matched

But Republicans also think Flanagan, because of things she has said about trans rights, and there is I asked her about a uh a t-shirt she wore at a conference where the state was becoming kind of a trans refuge for red states where people were fleeing with their kids. matched

Um she wore it. matched

Shirt that was uh said protect trans kids with pictures of of of combat knives on it. matched

I asked her what it meant. matched

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