About this episode
The episode discusses how Harry Reid's political strategies can inform current Democratic Party debates.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The full episode is available to paid subscribers. Once you become a paid subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here . Democrats are in the midst of an intraparty debate over how to win their way out of the wilderness. There are arguments about ideology, strategy, identity, and more. And while these debates always feel urgent for the party out of power, they are, at the very least, not new. Parties and politicians have been trying to figure out how to shore up their vulnerabilities, enhance their strengths, and fight another day for just about as long as representative politics have existed. Today we are going to focus on one such instance. We’re looking back at late-20th-century Nevada and the beginnings of a political machine built by former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It’s the subject of a new book by CEO of the Nevada Independent Jon Ralston, titled, “The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight.”
People in this episode
Host: Galen Druke
Topics covered
- Democratic Party
- political strategy
- Harry Reid
- Nevada politics
- intraparty debate
Keywords
- Harry Reid
- Democrats
- political machine
- Nevada
- Jon Ralston
- The Game Changer
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nevada Independent
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