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Sarah Longwell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2320 total appearances

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

What do you feel authentically is the thing that is the most harmful? And then go talk about that and do it as somebody who where you express your concern for the American people and the direction of the country sincerely and say, if I were in charge or what I think that what we should be doing instead is this. And I just, I do think everybody's like, well, what is my talking point of this?

Pod Save America
The DOGE Who Caught the Car

What do you feel authentically is the thing that is the most harmful? And then go talk about that and do it as somebody who where you express your concern for the American people and the direction of the country sincerely and say, if I were in charge or what I think that what we should be doing instead is this. And I just, I do think everybody's like, well, what is my talking point of this?

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Like, by the time everybody gets their talking points or by the time everybody's being told what the, everybody's focused, as somebody who does focus groups, I'm like, please don't wait for my guidance. Like, just say the thing you've, you know, that matters to you.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Like, by the time everybody gets their talking points or by the time everybody's being told what the, everybody's focused, as somebody who does focus groups, I'm like, please don't wait for my guidance. Like, just say the thing you've, you know, that matters to you.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Or at least a measure of incompetence.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Or at least a measure of incompetence.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Yeah. And also, I don't know. The message to me is always a little bit like, what are you mad about? That's Trump's fault. Yeah. You know, like the reason I do focus here is a lot of listening. So I'm like, what what is annoying them? What don't they like? Why is that Trump's fault? Like this is that's all the Trump guys did. Right. Or are you mad about inflation? Are you mad at this?

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Yeah. And also, I don't know. The message to me is always a little bit like, what are you mad about? That's Trump's fault. Yeah. You know, like the reason I do focus here is a lot of listening. So I'm like, what what is annoying them? What don't they like? Why is that Trump's fault? Like this is that's all the Trump guys did. Right. Or are you mad about inflation? Are you mad at this?

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

That's Biden's fault.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

That's Biden's fault.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Biden's fault. Biden's fault.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Biden's fault. Biden's fault.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Well. You know, here's the thing, though, just what you and I were just talking about, where we talk about the passion and the authenticity. So I'm an Alyssa Slotkin fangirl. So I'm not good for this because I love a sturdy Midwesterner who talks about her mixed marriage parents of Republicans. That's great. And I also thought she was doing something really important.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

Well. You know, here's the thing, though, just what you and I were just talking about, where we talk about the passion and the authenticity. So I'm an Alyssa Slotkin fangirl. So I'm not good for this because I love a sturdy Midwesterner who talks about her mixed marriage parents of Republicans. That's great. And I also thought she was doing something really important.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

I talked about this a little bit with Tommy that I think Democrats have been failing to do, which is โ€“ Voters don't care about democracy, quad democracy. And so to tell a better story about democracy and make people care about it, you have to tell a better story about America. And she talked about democracy last night through the lens of America and why America is uniquely good.

Pod Save America
The DOGE Who Caught the Car

I talked about this a little bit with Tommy that I think Democrats have been failing to do, which is โ€“ Voters don't care about democracy, quad democracy. And so to tell a better story about democracy and make people care about it, you have to tell a better story about America. And she talked about democracy last night through the lens of America and why America is uniquely good.

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The DOGE Who Caught the Car

And I was like, yes, this is what I have been waiting for. The problem is that Alyssa is โ€“ this is not a problem that she's a serious person. And so she delivered what I was like a 10 out of 10 technical speech for 2009. And I just โ€“ I think that if โ€“ I think she can and should be a leader for the Democrats, somebody that they look to to think about how they're going to โ€“

Pod Save America
The DOGE Who Caught the Car

And I was like, yes, this is what I have been waiting for. The problem is that Alyssa is โ€“ this is not a problem that she's a serious person. And so she delivered what I was like a 10 out of 10 technical speech for 2009. And I just โ€“ I think that if โ€“ I think she can and should be a leader for the Democrats, somebody that they look to to think about how they're going to โ€“