#396 — The Way Forward

Sam Harris speaks with Matthew Yglesias about the future of
Democratic politics. They discuss where the Democrats went wrong,
the failure of identity politics, the Left’s reaction to the
Daniel Penny case, what a second Trump term might look like,
immigration and the border, gender and racial disparities in
crime, wealth inequality, Matthew’s “nine principles for a common
sense Democrat comeback,” and other topics.


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