Jon Lovett

So much of it flows from the fact that people generally know what Democrats, they fully and clearly know what Democrats are against.

And I'm not going to go so far as to say people don't know what Democrats are for.

I think they actually do broadly, right?

But they don't understand what they're fighting for.

They don't know what really drives them against.

And I think part of that flows from like there's just no clear ideology outside of the left of the party.

Now, Rahm comes from the era, the Bill Clinton era, when there was a clear center-left, small-L liberal, pro-market governing ideology that was animating and interesting to people and interesting to them.

They could talk about it.

If you asked a novel question to Bill Clinton about an issue he hadn't thought that much about –

He had like a way of thinking about the world, a framework that he could use to apply it.

And the left has that.

I think some pro-democracy like the Chris Murphys of the world, I think do have kind of, they're on their way to that.

But most Democrats just don't.

They don't.

I don't think Chuck Schumer does.

I don't think a lot of like mainstream Democrats have that.

And so they kind of careen like.

through politics, figuring out what's the best way they can kind of represent the party, signal to the base they're on their side, like kind of not be too far to the left, whatever.

And it kind of leaves them straight jacket.

I think that's like kind of Kamala's campaign is like a signal example of that.