Eating the Elephant (with Sarah Longwell)

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This week: Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark and host of the The Focus Group, joins us to discuss persuadable voters and the extensive conversations she has with them (the topic of her new book How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time). We talk about what drove these voters away from Democrats (high prices), what’s driving them back to Democrats (high prices), and what politicians should say and do in an economic environment where the government has limited ability to deliver relief from high prices. And since this is Central Air, we talk about the bond market, and why it’s very important to these voters, even if they don’t realize it.

That’s for all listeners this week. Paying subscribers get to stick around for cocktail hour, when we discuss:

The immigration trap facing the next Democratic president.

The president’s odd choice to go nuclear on Tom Cotton over Daylight Saving Time, and

In the wake of the drama at Last Ditch Bar, are lesbians okay?

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