The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting

The left in general Democratic Party is very much into like anti-Trump rhetoric of saying like we have to fight, we have to blah blah blah and protest and whatnot. And it's like, it's become so predictable at this point, right? And it it's actually a very uh lazy talking point in a lot of ways because um Americans, American voters like They want the Democratic Party to focus and prioritize the issues that are closest home to them, right? This past election cycle, uh, Democrats were prioritizing uh abortion and democracy, um, and uh voters wanted them to focus on immigration, inflation, and the economy, and those those are things that the Republican Party was focused on.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Welcome to the 12th installment of the Good Fight Club and I have an extra special panel for you today. We have, I'm gonna do this I think in alphabetical order, Edward Luce, who is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times and the author of Zbik, an excellent new biography. of uh Zbik Brzezinski. We have Russell Muirhat who teaches political theory and politics at Dartmouth College.

He serves in the New Hampshire legislature and is the co-author with one of my thesis advisors, Nancy Rosenblum, of the book Ungoverning. And last but not least, we have Lauren Harper Pope, who is the co-founder of Welcome, an organization fighting for a more moderate centrist democratic party actually capable of winning elections. Welcome at Lauren and Russ. Thanks for having us. Thanks, Yasha.

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