Helen Lewis

I mean, the far left has, right?

This is why you get all these kind of mean jokes about people with blue fringes and whatever it might be and Palestine plushies and stuff like that.

But the mainstream Democratic Party does not have a consistent aesthetic in the way that MAGA does.

To the extent that MAGA women often look a particular way, right?

And MAGA men look a particular way.

And also that's related to optimism versus pessimism, because there is a version of that.

Actually, Andy Burnham here in England is now running in a by-election from which he hopes as a springboard to then run for the Labour leadership and become prime minister.

And he put out an advert.

Now, the soundtrack is Oasis, you know, so there's a 90s nostalgia.

But a lot of the shots were of new skyscrapers that have gone up in Manchester.

And his point there is, you know, like we are building stuff, like here is the place the future is being built.

which I always thought would be the centerpiece of any kind of Gavin Newsom presidential run, right?

It'd be like California, the place of the future.

There's a bit of a problem with that, though, right?

Which is that, and again, this maybe comes back to the aging society.

How many people in America are excited about the future versus how many of them think it's a veil of joblessness, declining living standards, a heating planet, like all of these things?

Who hates Waymos, which I think are awesome, having been to San Francisco recently.

I felt like I'm sitting in the future.

Who hates them more than taxi drivers unions?

Who hates driverless trains more than train drivers unions?