David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Sep

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And there is no path in which that is going to unify this country or achieve the justice –

And prosperity and equality and all of the things that you're looking for, that is not the path for it.

And and I just I'm longing for a moment where America, especially the bases of the parties, wake up and they say, you know what?

Sometimes the most courage you can demonstrate is to demonstrate humility or kindness in the face of an arrogant and cruel age.

Well, we're going to have to wait till Trump's out of the White House before that's even a possibility.

You know, Michelle, growing up in the South, did you ever hear this phrase?

We used it a lot in law.

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

You have.

So essentially what that means is if you reach too far, if you become too, if you try to get, you know, it would come up in settlement negotiations, like you're just asking for too much.

And when you ask for too much, you break off the settlement negotiations and you might then lose the case.

And so I think one of the things that we have seen is that

When one of the parties is weak, and the Republicans right now are weak, they really are, Democrats may end up overperforming their 2024 numbers very substantially, which could hand them control of the House, which means that even a Michigan Senate seat, which has been in Democratic hands for a really long time, odds are almost no matter who they nominate, that person is going to be, it's going to remain a Democratic seat.

These are very favorable tailwinds right here.

However, if you then take that moment to say now is when we can push the envelope with our candidates.

In other words, this is the opportunity maybe to really, as David was saying, put a successor to Bernie in the Senate coming from a swing state.

That's pretty risky.

And I keep flashing back to the 2022 midterms.

And there was very high inflation.

Joe Biden's approval rating had already gone below 50 and was not coming back.

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