Morris Katz
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first heard Jul 2026
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And his anger and disdain for the people who had sold out families like his was profound and real.
And he also connected deeply with voters when he was in a room with them at town halls, at campaign events.
But I think to the kind of donor class, it felt...
And so it didn't quite break through in the same way.
And it's a different skill to pitch donors and to pitch press than it is to pitch voters.
The collapse of local media, I think, has made this problem a lot worse.
20 years ago, there's profound local media circuits that exist that are actually in the weeds.
If you have really strong feelings about a factory that's giving workers cancer in Iowa, you can go and do five interviews about that and show your knowledge of local issues and show your passion in a way that's going to make people's lives better.
It's not a particularly sexy pitch to national reporters of, hey, do you want to write four different articles about a factory giving workers cancer in Iowa and a candidate who's incredibly angry about it?
The gap between editorial rooms and
corporate boardrooms and what is driving voters has never been more profound.
And I think that's been exacerbated, I think, in the Democratic Party by what I think was kind of a problematic shift after you had in 2012 the kind of moderate to Republican elites essentially handpick Mitt Romney and he receives the nomination and Obama wins a daunting re-election on the populist campaign against him.
And then you see Donald Trump rise up against that Republican establishment.
And then I think you see this kind of misleading exodus from the Republican Party of donors of institutional figures to the Democratic Party saying, I can't be a part of this.
And of course, they're welcomed into the tent because they come with resources and they come with platforms that have historically been of electoral significance.
We suddenly, at a moment in which there is a massive uprising against institutions, think that we're building a new coalition that is pro-institution.
And it's, we took all the people who made the Republican Party unelectable, folded them into our tent and let them influence our approach.
And I think it's fundamentally wrong and broken.
I think there is an interesting friction that's going to have to play out here of what is the traditional media's role in politics, which I think is fundamentally different than what it has been before.
It would have been unimaginable 20 years ago if I told you the New York Times editorial board is going to write a piece essentially telling voters, do not vote for Zoran Mamdani.
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