George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
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So I think it can be, I think equal America can be a powerful narrative, but it has to be a narrative that's hopeful and that
appeals to common values.
Amen, brother.
I'm with you.
But let's be honest, it will mean that the left of the Democratic Party and, let's say, the academic left and other powerful activist corners of the party...
are going to have to realize that by creating a picture of a country fundamentally sinful, fundamentally hypocritical, and a history of betraying those ideals makes it impossible to do what you just said.
My feeling is if America is the America that the academic left thinks, then we've lost nothing under Trump.
He's just exposed it.
So what's your argument against Trump?
You don't have one because he's just proving that you were right.
Instead, without falling into the trap of the celebration of American history as a continuous story of success, of course not.
No, we're grownups.
But people have to believe in something.
They have to be given a vision that makes them proud.
that makes them proud to be American, which is not something you would hear at a Democratic convention.
The DNC still, at its conventions, is a series of identity caucuses.
That's how the schedule is divided.
If you look at the three or four days, that is not my vision of equal America, because mine, like yours, goes back to the first words of the Declaration of
Thank you for having me.
Absolutely.
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