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After she became the Democratic Party's standard bearer, Kamala Harris didn't make sweeping changes to the campaign infrastructure that she inherited from Joe Biden. But there is one critical difference between the two campaigns, and that is that Harris's team, and possibly the candidate herself, seems to have realized that the mainstream media is not her ally, and that news organizations that refuse to state the obvious truth that Donald Trump is a moronic authoritarian who has stage managed to By people who hate American democracy, are themselves not interested in protecting the country from him.

The lesson that Harris appears to have learned has been one that Democrats should have learned decades ago. The Republican party is not interested in serving the public, and its policies are about enriching the billionaire oligarchs who control its policymaking apparatus.

But there is one group on the political left that learned this lesson a long time ago, the podcasters and writers who came on the scene in the mid 2000s as the liberal blogosphere. And my guest on today's episode, who goes by the pseudonym Driftglass, was one of the earliest left wing bloggers.

I personally was there in the beginning of right wing blogging, so today I thought it would be fun for us to compare notes about how things went back then, and how both the left and the right have responded to blogging since that time.


TIMECODES
00:00 Introduction
03:12 The rise of political blogging
08:03 The legacy media's resistance to change
11:12 When it came to blogs and new voices, the American right was much less conservative than Democrats were
16:59 The "both sides" do it framework benefits the status quo in media and among Democrats
34:13 How the migration of ousted Republicans into the Democratic party made it more conservative
36:31 Democrats' struggle with messaging
39:34 Challenges in enacting progressive policies
40:52 Media's role in political narratives
42:41 Has Kamala Harris learned from past Democratic mistakes?
44:21 The importance of liberal media infrastructure
48:11 Why policy is not as important as political junkies often think
57:19 Foreign influence in right-wing media
01:06:05 Concluding thoughts and future outlook


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