Ezra Klein

I am not saying that I want to see a Trump arise on the left. I don't. But it is a mistake to think that these things are too settled. Barack Obama changed the way the Democratic Party worked and functioned. And I think, frankly, a lot of the problem ended up being that Biden was the fumes of the Obama coalition, but he didn't have the control over it that Obama himself had.

So he wasn't able to drive it and govern it in the way that one needed to. What's gonna come next is gonna have to be different. It's not trying to re-put together the old thing. The old thing has failed now. It's gonna be putting together the new thing. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I know who can do it or how they're gonna do it.

So he wasn't able to drive it and govern it in the way that one needed to. What's gonna come next is gonna have to be different. It's not trying to re-put together the old thing. The old thing has failed now. It's gonna be putting together the new thing. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I know who can do it or how they're gonna do it.

So he wasn't able to drive it and govern it in the way that one needed to. What's gonna come next is gonna have to be different. It's not trying to re-put together the old thing. The old thing has failed now. It's gonna be putting together the new thing. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I know who can do it or how they're gonna do it.

But I can tell you, as somebody who covers the Democratic Party quite closely, that this is a period of rebuilding and rethinking, and that that is much more possible on both sides than people ever seem to believe it is in the moment.

But I can tell you, as somebody who covers the Democratic Party quite closely, that this is a period of rebuilding and rethinking, and that that is much more possible on both sides than people ever seem to believe it is in the moment.

But I can tell you, as somebody who covers the Democratic Party quite closely, that this is a period of rebuilding and rethinking, and that that is much more possible on both sides than people ever seem to believe it is in the moment.

Thank you, Ben. I appreciate it.

Thank you, Ben. I appreciate it.

Thank you, Ben. I appreciate it.

From New York Times Opinion, this is The Ezra Klein Show. In March of last year, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published this book called The Anxious Generation, which caused, let's call it, a stir.

From New York Times Opinion, this is The Ezra Klein Show. In March of last year, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published this book called The Anxious Generation, which caused, let's call it, a stir.

Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story that many parents are primed to believe. I always found the conversation over this book a little annoying because it got to me. at one of the difficulties we're having parenting, one of the difficulties we're having in society, which is this tendency to instrumentalize everything into social science.

Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story that many parents are primed to believe. I always found the conversation over this book a little annoying because it got to me. at one of the difficulties we're having parenting, one of the difficulties we're having in society, which is this tendency to instrumentalize everything into social science.

Unless I can show you on a chart the way something is bad, we have almost no language for saying it's bad. It is to me a collapse in our sense of what a good life is, what it means to flourish as a human being. And so I stayed a bit out of that debate because on the one hand, I couldn't settle it. And on the other hand, I didn't think I should come in and say it wasn't important.

Unless I can show you on a chart the way something is bad, we have almost no language for saying it's bad. It is to me a collapse in our sense of what a good life is, what it means to flourish as a human being. And so I stayed a bit out of that debate because on the one hand, I couldn't settle it. And on the other hand, I didn't think I should come in and say it wasn't important.

We're a year later, though, and two things have happened. One is Heitz's book has never left the bestseller list. That is rare. It has struck a chord. The other is that policy is moving in Heitz's direction.

We're a year later, though, and two things have happened. One is Heitz's book has never left the bestseller list. That is rare. It has struck a chord. The other is that policy is moving in Heitz's direction.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed one of the most restrictive social media laws in the country.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed one of the most restrictive social media laws in the country.