Derek Thompson

And the result is that California... New York, Illinois verlieren hunderttausende von Menschen pro Jahr.

So viele, dass wir im Jahr 2030, nach dem Kampagnen, wo wir die politische Macht aufgrund der Bevölkerung wiederholen, nachdem das alles so weitergeht, ein Demokrat, der alle Staaten gewonnen hat, Kamala Harris gewonnen hat, und auch Michigan, Pennsylvania und Wisconsin gewonnen hat, noch nicht die Präsidentschaft gewinnen würde, weil die blauen Staaten so viel Macht verloren hätten, indem sie Arbeitsklasse-Familien in die roten Staaten führten.

So viele, dass wir im Jahr 2030, nach dem Kampagnen, wo wir die politische Macht aufgrund der Bevölkerung wiederholen, nachdem das alles so weitergeht, ein Demokrat, der alle Staaten gewonnen hat, Kamala Harris gewonnen hat, und auch Michigan, Pennsylvania und Wisconsin gewonnen hat, noch nicht die Präsidentschaft gewinnen würde, weil die blauen Staaten so viel Macht verloren hätten, indem sie Arbeitsklasse-Familien in die roten Staaten führten.

Also ja, man muss diese Dinge lösen.

Also ja, man muss diese Dinge lösen.

I gotta say, man, the thing that surprised me least in the election was the blue shift to Trump. That blue cities and blue states had the biggest shift to the right. Because this was an affordability election. And we're actually, I think, just generally in a new age in American politics. For a very long time after the financial crisis, the problem the economy had was demand.

I gotta say, man, the thing that surprised me least in the election was the blue shift to Trump. That blue cities and blue states had the biggest shift to the right. Because this was an affordability election. And we're actually, I think, just generally in a new age in American politics. For a very long time after the financial crisis, the problem the economy had was demand.

We didn't have enough demand. We didn't have enough jobs. We didn't have high enough wages. And everybody on both sides talked endlessly about demand. And in the background for a long time, for decades, there had been this building affordability crisis. In healthcare, in housing, in education, in childcare, in eldercare. And nobody was really doing anything about it. And then the pandemic hit.

We didn't have enough demand. We didn't have enough jobs. We didn't have high enough wages. And everybody on both sides talked endlessly about demand. And in the background for a long time, for decades, there had been this building affordability crisis. In healthcare, in housing, in education, in childcare, in eldercare. And nobody was really doing anything about it. And then the pandemic hit.

and inflation hit and the entire like Sauron's eye of American politics moved to prices and inflation calmed in parts, right? It's not going up the way it was, although we'll see how the tariffs go. But the affordability crisis then was in full view and it got worse and it got worse. And so we're in this era Yes.

and inflation hit and the entire like Sauron's eye of American politics moved to prices and inflation calmed in parts, right? It's not going up the way it was, although we'll see how the tariffs go. But the affordability crisis then was in full view and it got worse and it got worse. And so we're in this era Yes.

Das war der schlimmste Zeitpunkt, den ich in der amerikanischen Politik erinnern kann. Und das Problem, das die Liberalen immer weiterentwickeln, ist, dass sie immer versuchen, Donald Trump zu schießen. Nicht basierend auf dem, was er für die Menschen leidet, sondern auf das, was er für die Institutionen macht.

Das war der schlimmste Zeitpunkt, den ich in der amerikanischen Politik erinnern kann. Und das Problem, das die Liberalen immer weiterentwickeln, ist, dass sie immer versuchen, Donald Trump zu schießen. Nicht basierend auf dem, was er für die Menschen leidet, sondern auf das, was er für die Institutionen macht.

And if the Democratic Party is going to win, if it's going to beat the populist right, which is coming up again and again, not just here, but in other countries, you have to have answers to the problems people face in their lives, not answers to the abstract questions of politics, not answers to... Not answers to who is on the side of democracy, but answers to whose states are better governed.

And if the Democratic Party is going to win, if it's going to beat the populist right, which is coming up again and again, not just here, but in other countries, you have to have answers to the problems people face in their lives, not answers to the abstract questions of politics, not answers to... Not answers to who is on the side of democracy, but answers to whose states are better governed.

Which places do you want to live? Who has something to say about what is making your Tuesday hard?

Which places do you want to live? Who has something to say about what is making your Tuesday hard?

I'm so glad you asked. So, you don't get long-term results in politics without short-term results. And this is a thing I think Democrats have really forgotten. We've been doing high-speed rail in California for a long time. Nobody's winning any elections on that. Under Joe Biden, they passed $42 billion for rural broadband. It passed in, I think, 2021, early 2022.

I'm so glad you asked. So, you don't get long-term results in politics without short-term results. And this is a thing I think Democrats have really forgotten. We've been doing high-speed rail in California for a long time. Nobody's winning any elections on that. Under Joe Biden, they passed $42 billion for rural broadband. It passed in, I think, 2021, early 2022.

By the end of 2024, you know how many people were hooked up to rural broadband? A couple dozen. We passed $7.5 billion for electric vehicle chargers to build a nationwide EV charger network. We built a couple dozen by the end of his presidency. You cannot win elections if you are passing billions of dollars that people cannot feel within two or three or four years.