Mara Liason
speaker
262 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Mara Liason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a kind of intergenerational promise and it's about progress.
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that you work hard and things get better and it's a foundational tenant in American politics.
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But that American dream seems to be over for for large numbers of voters.
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Here's Tanya from our focus group talking about the American dream.
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There's no more middle class.
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It's the rich and the poor.
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And Tony, who was a very pro Trump voter in our focus groups, approves of what Trump is doing, was very skeptical about billionaires.
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so this is another example of the convergence of economic populism on the left and the right.
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There's not a whole lot of difference between what Tony said and what a supporter of Bernie Sanders would say.
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Yeah, pessimism is bad for democracy, especially American democracy, because opportunity and progress and the future's gonna be better.
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That's a really important part of American politics and that is being undermined.
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You know, NPR got an exclusive view at a big poll.
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Uh that was taken recently.
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It was conducted by Celinda Lake, who's a democratic pollster.
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It was commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Germany.
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That foundation is Germany's oldest political foundation.
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It was started in nineteen twenty five.
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It's affiliated with the Social Democratic Party, kinda like a Brookings or a Center for American Progress.
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And what it found was
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In America it was it was a poll of five hundred blue collar voters, make a hundred and fifty thousand dollars or less and did not go to college.
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