Скачать или смотреть Chris Lehmann on why Trump won't deliver for his voters, and why Democrats are in trouble

As Donald Trump's second presidential administration is beginning to take shape With a host of unqualified and bizarre nominees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it raises the question, is this what Donald Trump's voters asked for?

That question is actually a lot more difficult to answer than it may seem, because a lot of people voted for Trump for a variety of different reasons, some of which were even contradictory.

We'll get into that on today's episode and also discuss why Democrats have been unwilling and unable to offer a different alternative to the politics of credentialism that they've been creating for the past several decades. My guest on today's episode is Chris Lehmann, the Washington bureau chief for The Nation magazine. He's also the author of the 2016 book, "The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream."

TIMECODES
00:00 — Introduction
07:00 — Ultra-libertarians and religious zealots think the same way
10:35 — Friedrich Nietzsche is the ultimate inspiration for today's tech oligarchs
18:10 — Democrats don't know how to advocate against religious zealotry
22:52 — Far-right people lost in the marketplace of ideas, so they're trying to overthrow the marketplace
28:04 — Hypocrisy isn't a vice to rightwingers, and the left should stop using it as an argument
31:56 — Democrats refuse to retire failed leaders
35:30 — Despite Democrats' problems, progressives have not learned to persuade
41:13 — Democrats want to win at politics, but hate actually engaging in it
44:49 — Fatalism among the far left
46:13 — Democrats' dilemma with working class representation
48:05 — Have wealthy Democrats reduced race and class advocacy into symbolic gestures?
56:07 — Have Democrats always been the party of Adlai Stevenson?
57:20 — Will the new Democratic National Committee chair shake things up in the party?
01:04:07 — The role of employers in immigration issues
01:07:26 — Conclusion

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On Twitter: https://x.com/lehmannchris

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