Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. For years now, New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein has been at the center of debates over the future of the Democratic Party. And what liberalism's political priorities ought to be.
Klein's perspective is getting even more scrutiny these days as we're in the midst of a volatile national debate over free speech and the very stability of our democracy. As we speak, President Trump is demanding prosecutions of his political enemies. He's claimed that it's illegal for the press to be critical of him, and he's routinely used threatening and dehumanizing language to discredit his opponents, whom he admits he hates. He did not hate his opponents.
He wanted The best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. And I don't want the best for them.
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