The Real "Autopsy" The Democrats Can't Face

About this episode

Sasha Stone reflects on the failures of the Democratic Party and the media's role in the 2024 election disaster.

The 2024 election was a disaster for the Democrats. They have never been held to account for any of it. That would ordinarily be the job of the legacy media, but they’ve long since abandoned any pretense of objectivity. They are part of the “resistance,” and friendly fire is not in the job description. Do I sound bitter? I suppose I am. I once believed in not just the Democratic Party but the Obama coalition. I was a loyal, devoted soldier who believed we were all fighting the good fight, even before Trump won. We were the side that cared about climate change, women’s rights, the poor, and the marginalized. It took me decades to go from being a cynical 18-year-old in the 1980s who didn’t think there was any point to voting to a person who believed my vote could change the world. That cynicism would be polished off over time, as we headed into the 1990s with political correctness and therapy culture on the rise. We wanted to fix ourselves. We wanted — needed — to fill the void left by the doom spiral in the aftermath of the “Me Generation” and their counterculture revolution. It was Bill Clinton, by way of Aaron Sorkin, who ultimately pulled us out of it and primed us for a…

People in this episode

Host: Sasha Stone

Topics covered

• 2024 election
• Democratic Party
• media bias
• political accountability
• cynicism in politics
• hope and change
• Obama coalition

Keywords

• Democrats
• 2024 election
• media
• politics
• Barack Obama
• Bill Clinton
• cynicism
• hope
• change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democratic Party, legacy media, Obama coalition, Aaron Sorkin

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