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Derek Thompson

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

I absolutely disagree with that.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

I absolutely disagree with that.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Bernie Sanders. I mean, tell me if you if you disagree with this, this interpretation. Bernie Sanders seems to be objectively the most popular figure in the Democratic Party right now. He runs against the Democratic Party every day. So this idea that Democrats should be afraid of self-criticism makes absolutely no sense to me in the context of the most famous self-critic of the Democratic Party

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Bernie Sanders. I mean, tell me if you if you disagree with this, this interpretation. Bernie Sanders seems to be objectively the most popular figure in the Democratic Party right now. He runs against the Democratic Party every day. So this idea that Democrats should be afraid of self-criticism makes absolutely no sense to me in the context of the most famous self-critic of the Democratic Party

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

being objectively the most popular. Donald Trump, who ran against the Republican Party.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

being objectively the most popular. Donald Trump, who ran against the Republican Party.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Let's have someone give it a shot. I don't know that it's going to work. I don't consider myself like some part-time political consultant. But like I said before, I do think that the Biden-Harris model fell into a trap of finding itself in defense of a status quo that they knew to be unpopular. And that's a terrible position to be in.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Let's have someone give it a shot. I don't know that it's going to work. I don't consider myself like some part-time political consultant. But like I said before, I do think that the Biden-Harris model fell into a trap of finding itself in defense of a status quo that they knew to be unpopular. And that's a terrible position to be in.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

You've wiggled your way into the one corner that you know won't be majoritarian popular because people are upset at the system.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

You've wiggled your way into the one corner that you know won't be majoritarian popular because people are upset at the system.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Right.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Right.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Jared Polis in Colorado, Josh Shapiro certainly in Pennsylvania. Shapiro, in particular, not only features in a chapter for his work on I-95, repairing the I-95 bridge that fell down. Project should have taken 12 to 24 months under normal conditions because of the emergency declaration that he announced. It was instead rebuilt in 12 days.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Jared Polis in Colorado, Josh Shapiro certainly in Pennsylvania. Shapiro, in particular, not only features in a chapter for his work on I-95, repairing the I-95 bridge that fell down. Project should have taken 12 to 24 months under normal conditions because of the emergency declaration that he announced. It was instead rebuilt in 12 days.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Great example of the kind of abundance liberalism that we're pointing to, the kind of get shit done liberalism that we're advancing. I've seen in the last few weeks he's sent a bunch of tweets that are all about essentially making government work faster, reducing permitting times.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Great example of the kind of abundance liberalism that we're pointing to, the kind of get shit done liberalism that we're advancing. I've seen in the last few weeks he's sent a bunch of tweets that are all about essentially making government work faster, reducing permitting times.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

I mean, I think in many ways the policies that he's announced just in the last week since the book came out are policies that you could absolutely tie in a bow and label abundance-pilled, not to suggest that he's only doing them because the book came out, of course. So I think there are great examples there. Westmore has been interested here.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

I mean, I think in many ways the policies that he's announced just in the last week since the book came out are policies that you could absolutely tie in a bow and label abundance-pilled, not to suggest that he's only doing them because the book came out, of course. So I think there are great examples there. Westmore has been interested here.

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Westmore, Richie Torres, the representative from New York, in response to- Jake Auchincloss. Jake Auchincloss, who we've both spoken to. He's been on Ezra's show. Richie Torres, in response to Ezra's colleague asking, where's the Project 2029 of the Democratic Party, just tweeted the cover of this book, which is, A, I guess, wonderful advertising that we certainly did not ask him to do, but B-

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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on How Democrats Can Build Their Way Back to Power

Westmore, Richie Torres, the representative from New York, in response to- Jake Auchincloss. Jake Auchincloss, who we've both spoken to. He's been on Ezra's show. Richie Torres, in response to Ezra's colleague asking, where's the Project 2029 of the Democratic Party, just tweeted the cover of this book, which is, A, I guess, wonderful advertising that we certainly did not ask him to do, but B-