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Nov 5, 2026
99HOST
What does it matter? It also
MaxHOST
does speak to message discipline, which is – was something – it's – I think on the left it's become a lost art and they're just getting their ground again.
MaxHOST
Because they're
99HOST
all like parries of themselves.
MaxHOST
Like, a good ad in the most horrible way possible.
MaxHOST
Yeah.
MaxHOST
But Zoran undid that, and I think... re-taught the left about message discipline.
MaxHOST
Because
Josh KurtzHOST
And what does this mean for the next two years? And how much of this is quality of Democratic candidates versus an anti-Trump vote just everywhere that the likes of which we haven't seen?
Marvin JamesGUEST
I've never been more proud of the message discipline from the candidates in which we got.
Marvin JamesGUEST
And I think to David's point and what he's lifting up here, when we talk about really the quality of candidates, yes, it is their background, their ability to appeal to voters, all that really great stuff.
Marvin JamesGUEST
But for those of us who are a part of the consultant class, it really is about the ability to stay on message.
Marvin JamesGUEST
As, by the way, in which Alex is lifting up, which is my death message to any candidate, that it is about talking to voters and it is about talking to them incestuously about what they care about.
Alex HughesGUEST
Here's the real question in my mind, though.
Alex HughesGUEST
Do the Democrats maintain that message discipline? Do they pull that through in governing? Can Chuck Schumer, can Hakeem Jeffries, can they maintain this very narrow focus on this affordability question? Or do they get yanked around by different advocacy groups who are like, oh, I have 10,000 other things I want you to focus on? Do they go down some rabbit hole of social issues? Like we've seen time and time again, this don't work for us.
Alex HughesGUEST
So I think it's very incumbent on the sort of presumptive leaders of the party right now to stay exactly on your point, Marvin, and remain very message disciplined.
Richard HeydarianHOST
Maybe we should start to.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
that um in brazil whatsapp is really the main method of communication uh dating from before whatsapp was obtained by meta um the the exertion to the lula the lula army that was organized by janonis was really key number one for message discipline so you have uh um A key tactic of the far right is to distract us, is the fire hose strategy, right? Flood you with so much information, you don't know how to react, make you angry, so you lash out.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
And oftentimes, for those of us in the progressive camp, It's this anger, it's this exclusivity, it's this perceived elitism that turns people off from us even though we are fighting for the policies that benefit the majority of working and poor people.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
But they are the ones who are being pulled out of our movement because we talk down to them, to be honest.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
So journalists was really important to organize this message discipline every day to keep the messages positive, to keep the messages consistent, and also repetition.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
I was listening to Ezra Klein podcast yesterday, and there was someone who does focus groups who was saying that the way that people get political information nowadays, it's not what TV channel do you watch or what newspaper do you read? Folks don't know, cannot point to one or two singular sources for their political information because they get it in waves.
Cecilia LeroGUEST
They get it through repetition.
Jon SlavetHOST
And, uh, The Atlantic reported recently that Trump's advisors in the Oval said to him, "You know, Americans still don't understand your big successes.
Jon SlavetHOST
You gotta sell that." Do you think, Karl, that it's really just a question of message discipline and selling that better, or is there something else more fundamental?
Karl RoveGUEST
Well, I think those are both important, message discipline and selling it, but timing it matters as well, and this is mystifying to me.
Karl RoveGUEST
What is the greatest success of the Trump administration? The securing of the southern border.
Jon SlavetHOST
Border.