Derek Thompson

Joe Rogan was a Bernie Sanders fan in 2016, and many things happened, and I don't want to just associate his political shift with just how he was treated by the left, but something clearly happened where I think liberals started to say, you know, we shouldn't allow people or we're going to judge people who are in our coalition for showing up on Joe Rogan and talking to someone who we think is conspiratorial.

Guys, elections have to be about persuasion. You have to be willing to talk to everybody. And, you know, I'm not... Gavin Newsom is a complex political figure, but he's very, very good, I think, at reading... Complex is a compliment for that fucking guy. He's very good, though, Bill, at... at putting his finger to the wind and knowing when the moment has changed.

Guys, elections have to be about persuasion. You have to be willing to talk to everybody. And, you know, I'm not... Gavin Newsom is a complex political figure, but he's very, very good, I think, at reading... Complex is a compliment for that fucking guy. He's very good, though, Bill, at... at putting his finger to the wind and knowing when the moment has changed.

Guys, elections have to be about persuasion. You have to be willing to talk to everybody. And, you know, I'm not... Gavin Newsom is a complex political figure, but he's very, very good, I think, at reading... Complex is a compliment for that fucking guy. He's very good, though, Bill, at... at putting his finger to the wind and knowing when the moment has changed.

And the fact that he's starting a podcast and talking to Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, whether or not that is a useful strategy for running the state of California, probably not. Useful strategy for winning the Democratic primary in 2028, maybe not. But does it reflect the reality that you're pointing to?

And the fact that he's starting a podcast and talking to Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, whether or not that is a useful strategy for running the state of California, probably not. Useful strategy for winning the Democratic primary in 2028, maybe not. But does it reflect the reality that you're pointing to?

And the fact that he's starting a podcast and talking to Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, whether or not that is a useful strategy for running the state of California, probably not. Useful strategy for winning the Democratic primary in 2028, maybe not. But does it reflect the reality that you're pointing to?

This new reality that liberals are coming to terms with the fact that we have been too obsessed with only talking to ourselves, with this purity of insularity. And maybe in the next four years, our job is to build a coalition by accepting people who don't entirely agree with us, who sometimes use the quote unquote wrong word.

This new reality that liberals are coming to terms with the fact that we have been too obsessed with only talking to ourselves, with this purity of insularity. And maybe in the next four years, our job is to build a coalition by accepting people who don't entirely agree with us, who sometimes use the quote unquote wrong word.

This new reality that liberals are coming to terms with the fact that we have been too obsessed with only talking to ourselves, with this purity of insularity. And maybe in the next four years, our job is to build a coalition by accepting people who don't entirely agree with us, who sometimes use the quote unquote wrong word.

It's really important, I think, to be more flexible about a big, big tent strategy.

It's really important, I think, to be more flexible about a big, big tent strategy.

It's really important, I think, to be more flexible about a big, big tent strategy.

Yeah, so the term abundance came from an article that I wrote three years ago called The Abundance Agenda. And basically, I was standing outside in February or January of 2022 waiting in line for rationed COVID tests and just getting really fucking upset because I was like, we're two years into this pandemic. We don't have enough COVID tests. Before that, we didn't have enough COVID vaccines.

Yeah, so the term abundance came from an article that I wrote three years ago called The Abundance Agenda. And basically, I was standing outside in February or January of 2022 waiting in line for rationed COVID tests and just getting really fucking upset because I was like, we're two years into this pandemic. We don't have enough COVID tests. Before that, we didn't have enough COVID vaccines.

Yeah, so the term abundance came from an article that I wrote three years ago called The Abundance Agenda. And basically, I was standing outside in February or January of 2022 waiting in line for rationed COVID tests and just getting really fucking upset because I was like, we're two years into this pandemic. We don't have enough COVID tests. Before that, we didn't have enough COVID vaccines.

Before that, we didn't have enough masks or PPE. This pandemic has just been one scarcity after another. And as I'm sitting in line and moving my feet and getting really angry at the world, I was thinking, it's not just the pandemic, actually. that's seen this sort of crisis of scarcity, there's not enough housing in the cities that need it most.

Before that, we didn't have enough masks or PPE. This pandemic has just been one scarcity after another. And as I'm sitting in line and moving my feet and getting really angry at the world, I was thinking, it's not just the pandemic, actually. that's seen this sort of crisis of scarcity, there's not enough housing in the cities that need it most.

Before that, we didn't have enough masks or PPE. This pandemic has just been one scarcity after another. And as I'm sitting in line and moving my feet and getting really angry at the world, I was thinking, it's not just the pandemic, actually. that's seen this sort of crisis of scarcity, there's not enough housing in the cities that need it most.

We don't have enough PCPs, enough general care doctors in this country because for a variety of reasons, we shrink the number of residency slots or cap the number of residency slots and thereby restrict the number of people that can become doctors to allow doctors to have a higher wage or at least had this law that did that a couple decades ago that's been really, really bad in terms of doctor abundance.