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The 2024 presidential election is in the can, and it didn't go the way that many of us wanted it to. Despite engaging in treason against the United States on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump will become president once again.

While there are plenty of things that Kamala Harris could have done better, she was up against several larger obstacles, chief among them the price inflation that has troubled every country in the world after the Covid-19 pandemic and also the gigantic far-right media apparatus that relentlessly tells more than 100 million Americans that Democrats are controlled by Satan and that the United States is currently in a recession.

Whatever Harris may or may not have done incorrectly, the Democrats have failed to adjust to the new media and political environment of the social media age. Harris and President Joe Biden rolled out a number of policies that have undeniably helped millions of regular Americans but somehow figured the policies would speak for themselves. They did not.

Joining us to talk about what went wrong is Jim Carroll. He's an associate editor at Flux and also has his own site, The Hot Screen.

00:00 Introduction
03:26 Pro-democracy arguments and their effectiveness
05:29 Economic conditions and their influence
12:27 The role of media in shaping public opinion
15:57 Trump's fake economic proposals sounded more ambitious than Harris's at first glance
18:37 Democrats cannot campaign on policy alone
21:37 How media shape public opinion of the economy
24:48 The right's "regime" narrative is appealing to frustrated people
33:53 Economic justice protects social justice
35:58 Kamala Harris's failed pivot toward disaffected Republicans
40:10 The impact of non-voters and younger voters
41:58 Surfing the media wave rather than trying vainly to control it
46:55 Many lessons of Obama and Clinton victories are not relevant to today
51:25 Mainstream media's failure to tell the full truth about Republicans
53:13 Democrats cannot rely on the mainstream media
58:07 Money is not the obstacle to a better media environment, willpower and skill is

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