Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
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How does the NYC mayor-elect reflect the current political zeitgeist?
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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back to the show, former political director for Barack Obama. He also was ambassador to South Africa and an informal advisor to New York City's mayor-elect, Zoran Mamdani. It's Patrick Gaspard. How you doing, man?
What lessons can Democrats learn from Mamdani's approach?
I'm good, man. Thank you for putting out my hit list there. Oh, yeah. Well, the people need to know your resume. All right. People need to know that you're legit. We have news to do, but I need to start with this. We had breakfast a couple months ago when I was in New York, and I learned that your family is a nickname for me. And I've never felt whiter in my life than hearing your family's nickname. So I do want you to share it with the people. It requires context. You and I were on some MSNBC show with one another, and you were wearing a Christmas sweater. And my daughter looked at it and texted me a text and said, Dad, why are you on with Elf on a Shelf? And somehow Elf on a Shelf has become shorthand for Tim Miller in my household ever since.
Yeah.
How can the Democratic Party move beyond its Obama and Bernie factions?
So the context matters. I don't know if it does, actually. I don't know if the context helps me all that much. But whatever. And I wore a sweater. It's not a Christmas sweater, but I wore a sweater for you. I guess I'm not looking that Elvin today, but maybe your daughter would disagree. This morning I told everybody I'm going to be out with Elf on a shelf, and they all got it. Brutal. That's brutal. Okay. Let's get on to something else brutal. The president of these United States Oval Office address last night. I had to suffer through it for my job. People who didn't.
What is the significance of Trump's address on foreign leaders' trust?
There's a lot of garland, a lot of garland in the Oval Office now. It kind of felt like a Sarasota mall Santa screaming about Joe Biden. The teleprompter was moving very fast. I think he had limited time because the networks wanted to get to the Survivor season finale. The only policy announcement was that troops are going to get a thousand buck dividend, which is, you know, whatever. It's a Christmas bonus, I guess. But most of the speech was complaining about Joe Biden. The first minute he complained about how Joe Biden transgendered everybody. I don't know. It was pretty embarrassing, I guess, was my takeaway. I was feeling embarrassed for him, but also for all of us. What was your reaction to our president?
Yeah, definitely more embarrassed for all of us than for him.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Trump's recent challenges regarding affordability?
0:00–1:10
2
How does the NYC mayor-elect reflect the current political zeitgeist?
1:10–2:29
3
What lessons can Democrats learn from Mamdani's approach?
2:29–3:10
4
How can the Democratic Party move beyond its Obama and Bernie factions?
3:10–3:39
5
What is the significance of Trump's address on foreign leaders' trust?
3:39–4:28
6
How does Trump's rhetoric impact his support among voters?
4:28–5:42
7
What role does empathy play in political communication today?
5:42–6:55
8
How can aid programs like PEPFAR be revitalized in future administrations?
6:55–1:13:26
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