Eric Levitz
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The reason for that is that as countries get richer, people spend... a larger share of their money on services and a smaller share of their money on manufactured goods. The human appetite for appliances and cars is more limited than the human appetite for better health and higher investment returns. You know, you only need so many dishwashers. And so, fundamentally, we need an economic model
The reason for that is that as countries get richer, people spend... a larger share of their money on services and a smaller share of their money on manufactured goods. The human appetite for appliances and cars is more limited than the human appetite for better health and higher investment returns. You know, you only need so many dishwashers. And so, fundamentally, we need an economic model
that is able to get us some of the good parts of the mid-century economy, the economic mobility, the wage growth for people who are not, you know, at the top of the class hierarchy. But we need to find a way to do that in a world where we have a services-dominated economy. And nostalgia is just not a good guide for getting us to that place.
that is able to get us some of the good parts of the mid-century economy, the economic mobility, the wage growth for people who are not, you know, at the top of the class hierarchy. But we need to find a way to do that in a world where we have a services-dominated economy. And nostalgia is just not a good guide for getting us to that place.
that is able to get us some of the good parts of the mid-century economy, the economic mobility, the wage growth for people who are not, you know, at the top of the class hierarchy. But we need to find a way to do that in a world where we have a services-dominated economy. And nostalgia is just not a good guide for getting us to that place.
The reason why we're still looking back is that it takes a while after an election to get all of the most high quality data on what exactly happened. So the full picture is starting to just come into view now.
The reason why we're still looking back is that it takes a while after an election to get all of the most high quality data on what exactly happened. So the full picture is starting to just come into view now.
The reason why we're still looking back is that it takes a while after an election to get all of the most high quality data on what exactly happened. So the full picture is starting to just come into view now.
Yeah, so this was my interview with David Shore of Blue Rose Research. He's one of the biggest sort of democratic data gurus in the party. And basically, the big picture headline takeaways are... Coming up on Today Explained.
Yeah, so this was my interview with David Shore of Blue Rose Research. He's one of the biggest sort of democratic data gurus in the party. And basically, the big picture headline takeaways are... Coming up on Today Explained.
Yeah, so this was my interview with David Shore of Blue Rose Research. He's one of the biggest sort of democratic data gurus in the party. And basically, the big picture headline takeaways are... Coming up on Today Explained.
The big picture headline takeaways are that voters who say they don't care much about politics, who don't follow the news closely, who don't always vote in elections, that group moved really strongly towards Donald Trump. This was a group that was split about evenly between Biden and Trump in 2020, and this time it was overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
The big picture headline takeaways are that voters who say they don't care much about politics, who don't follow the news closely, who don't always vote in elections, that group moved really strongly towards Donald Trump. This was a group that was split about evenly between Biden and Trump in 2020, and this time it was overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
The big picture headline takeaways are that voters who say they don't care much about politics, who don't follow the news closely, who don't always vote in elections, that group moved really strongly towards Donald Trump. This was a group that was split about evenly between Biden and Trump in 2020, and this time it was overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
I think that what is most striking, perhaps, in his data is the movements among younger voters for the entire time that i've been covering politics there was a basic narrative where the republican party was essentially facing a ticking time bomb where they were going to have to fundamentally make more peace with social liberalism and with the welfare state
I think that what is most striking, perhaps, in his data is the movements among younger voters for the entire time that i've been covering politics there was a basic narrative where the republican party was essentially facing a ticking time bomb where they were going to have to fundamentally make more peace with social liberalism and with the welfare state
I think that what is most striking, perhaps, in his data is the movements among younger voters for the entire time that i've been covering politics there was a basic narrative where the republican party was essentially facing a ticking time bomb where they were going to have to fundamentally make more peace with social liberalism and with the welfare state
because the rising generations in the United States, millennials and Zoomers, just weren't buying what they were selling. And yeah, they can cobble together these electoral college majorities for a little while, but this is just a matter of time before we get to the progressive majority.
because the rising generations in the United States, millennials and Zoomers, just weren't buying what they were selling. And yeah, they can cobble together these electoral college majorities for a little while, but this is just a matter of time before we get to the progressive majority.
because the rising generations in the United States, millennials and Zoomers, just weren't buying what they were selling. And yeah, they can cobble together these electoral college majorities for a little while, but this is just a matter of time before we get to the progressive majority.