Hosts evaluate Democratic Party leadership and historical context (Part 2)

Victim to it. But that's why you have to contextualize these things for people and show that this has really not happened since post Watergate. Like, there are a lot of books behind me, actually, I was thinking about it, you know, Matt Stoller, his book on populism and on the Watergate babies. I highly recommend it because he has a very good history of kind of what went wrong with the Democratic Party of that time. And it was a very similar circumstance. Something I'm excited to talk to row about where they won these historic victories, but they didn't really have a leader and they didn't really know what to do. And obviously that ends up culminating in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and the entire, you know, kind of realignment of American politics on the Reaganite axis. And so the big question is, you know, not just building a. Not just having a victory, but building a majority and then a coalition that can govern for 20 years. That is ultimately a project, a political project that anybody who hopes, who does win, should actually try to build. And ultimately, of course, that's where MAGA completely shit the bed. I also think we need to talk a lot about candidate quality as well, because this is something where La Comilla's loss, I'm sure many Democrats are very upset about. But you know what it did, it showed that the leaders truly didn't have a clue. And by doing that, I think in very similar circumstance to Donald Trump's election or others, where when the establishment gets knocked off, very ordinary, random people, just like in the Tea Party wave. I mean, famously, you had pizza parlor owners and dry cleaners and other people who just showed up in Washington. That's kind of what happened. And I'm not comparing them necessarily to political outsiders, but it inspired in a completely new type of. Of thinking. I mean, when I see James Tallarico in his very first interview as Senator elect, he's on Fox News, he goes, yeah, I'll work with President Trump on the border, but I'm also going to have to work with him on building millions of new housing units and lowering the cost of housing. It's a type of rhetoric and a positioning that I just, frankly, could not see, you know, considering what he said on the border. And he was like, he even said the words, I think that they did better than the previous administration. There's a political entrepreneurship and an opening and a space that I saw in Abdul Al said, I see in Talarico, and I also saw with Scott Colomb down in Mississippi, who looks very likely to win that race. I hadn't seen this video until you guys flagged it.