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

To have.

And I'm certainly not communism, but I'm also not like things are basically fine.

Yeah, I've never met one.

Have you met a radical centrist?

It's playing pretty poorly with the left part of the base.

I mean, I'm when I in my first book, I talked about the successes of incrementalism.

And if you look at the three big eras of advancement for the left in the United States, which were the progressive era in the early 20th century, you looked at the New Deal era after World War Two and you looked at the civil rights era.

Yep.

In retrospect, it feels like big change.

And it was hugely significant changes.

But at the time, it was a lot of, hey, we got a Supreme Court pick who 10 years from now is going to be part of a really important decision, either on women's voting or on civil rights or etc.

It's we've made another tweak to the programs of FDR.

So the incrementalism has a pretty strong track record in the United States.

It's it's OK to go seemingly slowly.

as long as you're going in the right direction and you're not basically done making the changes.

I'm okay with incrementalism.

And I often say to the accelerationists who say, we've got to, we've got to take all businesses and make them government controlled housing, et cetera, break it all down.

I asked them for examples of where that has worked and so far nobody's given me any.

I think Biden's style made him seem like a status quo guy.

Yeah.

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