Jon Lovett
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15,055 appearances
44 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Sep
Jon Lovett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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None of it's exciting.
None of it's interesting.
People are pretty busy.
They have a million options for how to spend their limited attention.
To the extent they hear anything, Trump has made it all political.
And so there's a whole group of people.
People like us will either make fun of it or...
Or ignore it and then the people who don't really care about politics or don't actively avoid politics We immediately turn it turn away from like you could see a world Potentially where a different president does something different that is more in the theoretical spirit of America that is more bipartisan You know You could see a world where a Democratic president or even a different Republican president who comes from a different Republican Party in an alternative universe has on stage a
The Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bushes.
And we're basically the Obama library opening.
But I went back and looked a lot at what happened in 1976.
And so much of it, A, it happened in an election year, which is notable.
But also just so much of the attention to it also had a lot to do with the fact that
We lived in a world where there were three TV station channels and you had to watch it.
And so you couldn't, it just, it was like beamed into the brains of American people.
People do get kind of involved.
Like I saw the whole thing about how people decorated all their painted, all the fire hydrants, red, white, and blue.
Some of them turned into like very funny, like Abe Lincoln fire hydrants and things like that.
But just in this day and age, it's like, it's hard to get people's attention like that.
And Trump is not trying to actually do that.
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