Michelle Cottle
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2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I get all those.
Trump's great gift politically has always been, however, to take this germ of a fact or a reality or something and just.
spin it into some kind of insane baroque dark fantasy whether you're talking about government corruption or immigration or crime or whatever he has the ability to take something and turn it into something entirely fantastical almost but
In this case, for people who don't pay that much attention to what exactly the DSA stands for or how it differs from regular socialism, even much less communism.
David, do you think that he will have much success making this link in people's minds and turning this into, you know, not a referendum on him so much as a referendum on democratic extremism?
So speaking to your point, Jamal, can the DSA mobilize people with their kind of fighting spirit with Trump?
At the same time, as my inbox will attest, the Republicans are going all in on turning this into what has become known as the hate election, which is how much can you get?
Not just your voters, but, you know, people who might be anxious about the idea of more extremist Democratic candidates turning the country into something they don't recognize.
How much can you mobilize them?
Certainly they are working this with on the fundraising side just incessantly.
And I always there's the issue of, you know, the balance between a candidate that excites their own voters versus the candidate who also is exciting the other side's voters.
And I think that's what's making a lot of Democrats nervous in places outside of New York.
Like, obviously, if you're a safe blue district in New York, whoever you nominate is going to get it.
that just like as the democratic nominee uh this is not the same for say you know like colorado eight big swing district republican incumbent very vulnerable the more liberal progressive candidate won and that makes a lot of people nervous about whether or not they can pull it off same thing with same thing with a lot of what we're seeing in michigan so that's my question
Are you talking about the Senate candidate?
The fundamentals are against the Republicans in every way this time.
So it will be interesting to see how much the discourse matters.
That's not how I watch curling, David.
Okay, well, I can't resist drawing this to a close on a curling analogy.
How often do we get to do that?
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