David Pakman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is How Social Media Will Decide the Next Election With David Pakman · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, I don't think it's inevitable that the left has to lose on it.

We have to rethink the entry point into a lot of these issues.

For example.

If you work, of course, you should be able to afford a dignified life in the place where you are working, not 70 miles away where it's cheaper.

That has a little more emotional salience.

And then we can back in.

Like, what policies are we talking about?

Housing and wages, et cetera.

It's for people who are better on the language stuff than me to kind of figure out.

But I don't think it's a lost cause.

I just don't think we're winning with it right now.

I think it does.

What we're kind of getting into now is the populist rhetoric.

And the thing I talk about about populist rhetoric is that it's not a definitive set of policy proposals.

And the danger with the populist rhetoric is that if you go to Bernie and to Tucker Carlson, they will give you a similar diagnosis upfront, which is there are these empowered elites

that are in it for themselves, like you'll get a pretty similar analysis.

You then go to what are the solutions and Tucker's solutions are pretty ugly in a lot of ways.

Whereas, of course, Bernie's are ones that that I would agree with more.

I think the risk of adopting the populist rhetoric, which Trump has also adopted, is that then the solution may be one that's actually completely antithetical to the policy and values that that we support.

But on the rhetoric, I think Bernie's been very good.

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