Sam Harris speaks with Matthew Yglesias about the future of Democratic politics. They discuss where the Democrats went wrong, the failure of identity politics, the Left’s reaction to the Daniel Penny case, what a second Trump term might look like, immigration and the border, gender and racial disparities in crime, wealth inequality, Matthew’s “nine principles for a common sense Democrat comeback,” and other topics.They are a little subdued about Trump, since the election.Matthew Yglesias is a columnist for Bloomberg and author of the newsletter Slow Boring. He has also written for The American Prospect, The Atlantic, and Slate. He co-founded Vox in 2014.
A top Yglesias complaint is that Trump is exactly what he appears to be, as opposed to the phoniness of every other major politician.
nobody has ever said to me about Donald Trump -- well if you only like if 30:56 you really knew him you know if you saw what he was like behind closed doors, he's so much more thoughtful, he's so 31:02 much Kinder than he comes across as and you hear that every other president. you know maybe it's BS but like people who 31:09 worked for George W bush people, who worked for Biden, people who worked, you know, people who lost Mitt Romney, Hillary 31:15 Clinton, their closest aides will say you know this person is so great. I I talk to people who work for Trump in his first 31:21 term and they'll say you know no like this guy's totally nuts it's um it's exactly what it seems like and that you 31:28 know that worries me.He tries to turn this into a negative, but I think that it is a positive. Trump is the most honest and transparent major politician I have seen. If you vote for him, you know what you are voting for.
The podcasts both voted for Harris, but they have no sense of what she stood for. She said whatever her advisors said was politically expedient. She would say that her values had not changed, but what were those values? Nobody knows.
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