Drew Holden
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442 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Drew Holden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We fundamentally don't understand half this country and the way they vote and the things they care about.
And then they forgot three weeks later when Trump said or did something they didn't like.
And I'm worried that for the last 10 years, we've just repeated cycles of that.
And you don't have any real attempt from media, from outlets, from individuals to really reckon with the fact that their views are radically different from lots of people and that they are obsessed, absolutely obsessed with the person of Donald Trump and all those people connected to him.
They're yours.
So I think it comes down to two things.
The first is that he was a threat to the institution of the media and kind of a lot of old guard institutions across the United States that the media is very bound up in, right?
If Donald Trump comes in and says he wants to, you know, throw out these kind of esteemed institutions that have set America on this kind of comfortable trajectory for a lot of upper middle class and upper upper class people,
I think they, on like an individual level, felt threatened by that, right?
And so I think that's one angle of it.
The other angle that I think is really, really important is that
The media recognized and at least continues to believe, even as the powers diminish a little bit, that there is nothing that is going to drive more attention to them than by being critical of what Donald Trump does, right?
He is a phenomenon, I think, to the media beyond being the person, right?
And what he represents isn't just...
a president.
It isn't just the Republican Party.
It isn't just a changing kind of system in trade or in foreign relations or in military or in anything else.
He represents a group of people that I think at bedrock, most people in the legacy media and most legacy institutions don't like and don't respect and don't care about.
And there's been a cheapening, I think, in the years since of what that looks like, right?
You had the
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