Is This Democracy

📢 PODCAST   “Landslide” How the Radical Right Took Over the Republican Party and Transformed American Politics in the 1970s – with Ben Bradford and Seth Cotlar (Part I) New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/35-…

📢 PODCAST   What Today’s Republican Party Is Made Of – A GOP Primary Post-Mortem   New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/34-…

📢 PODCAST   The Many Blind Spots and Pitfalls of the “Biden Too Old” Discourse   New episode of Is This Democracy   podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/33-…

📢 PODCAST “Project 2025”: What the Right Plans to Do Once Trumpism Returns to Power New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

The media’s decision is emblematic of “neutrality”-theater journalism’s tendency to favor “balance” over accuracy, of an increasingly reactionary, anti-“woke” stance on the center, and of America’s elites rapidly accommodating extremism. We are in for a rough ride. /end

Then why did the mainstream media propagate, launder, and legitimize such a dangerous campaign and ardently accept the role Rufo needed it – publicly told it! – to play? They didn’t just “fall for it,” they deliberately joined this crusade. 7/

Why the Reactionary Campaign Against Claudine Gay Is a Matter of Great Concern   We discuss the rightwing campaign against higher education and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining the reactionary crusade.   New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/31-… 🧵1/

Michael Podhorzer combines an ability to think deeply and sincerely about U.S. society with decades of experience as a progressive campaigner and strategist. He offers a grasp and clarity that very few political observers can rival. Here is someone you want to listen to.

And we discuss what’s actually going on in the electorate: Why the recent economic recovery cannot alleviate the deep frustration; the massive impact of Dobbs; and why the pervasive idea of “education polarization” obscures the fault lines that actually shape U.S. politics. 4/

Mad Poll Disease and the Folly of “Popularism” – with Michael Podhorzer Why we need to ignore horse-race polling, what “popularists” get so very wrong, and how the idea of “education polarization” obscures what’s actually going on.   New episode of Is This Democracy: 1/

On the basis of this major survey, we try to take the temperature on where things currently stand in America. The result is… not exactly encouraging.   More here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/29-…

What do American think of democracy, political violence, authoritarianism, and all the many issues – from abortion and history education to trans rights and QAnon – that define the political conflict? 4/

What Do Americans Value in 2023?   Our reaction to a week of Joe Biden polling disastrously bad, but Democrats winning elections – and a deep (!) dive into the 2023 American Values Survey.   New episode of Is This Democracy: 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/29-…