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Sep 14, 2026
Xander BrettCORRESPONDENT
Exclusively show, but it really is going down to the wire.
Xander BrettCORRESPONDENT
At time of recording, and that's seven AM Stockholm time on Monday morning, the left bloc consisting of the Social Democrats, Left Party, Green Party, and Centre Party are projected by SVT, Sweden's national broadcaster, to have a hundred and seventy-six seats against a hundred and seventy-three seats for the right bloc, the Moderates, Liberals, Christian Democrats, and Sweden Democrats.
Xander BrettCORRESPONDENT
A hundred and seventy-five seats are needed for a majority.
Xander BrettCORRESPONDENT
So it looks like Tidö's time could be up, a dö Tidö indeed were the words of Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar overnight The Tidö Agreement, which brought together the moderates, liberals, and Christian democrats in coalition with support from the nationalist Sweden Democrats, took its name from Tidö Castle, where the agreement was negotiated.
JeremyHOST
It's no wonder that they're ascendant at the moment.
JeremyHOST
Moderates don't have fucking anything to give us.
GageHOST
Exactly, and the-
JeremyHOST
Why would I vote for you?
19 MINS LATER
JeremyHOST
Mm-hmm
GageHOST
... on a podcast with an activist, but I digress.
GageHOST
Moderates are allowed to go from the Republican Party into the Democratic Party who have said horrible things as Republicans and be accepted as Democrats.
GageHOST
But yet, like, it's just-
Tim MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, right.
Tim MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Moderate.
Tim MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Good candidate.
Tim MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's good for that district.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
So they continued trying, but...
Victor SebestyenGUEST
This is where the strategy of the Social Democrats and the Moderates was so profoundly wrong, all the way through Weimar, essentially, that the real danger they felt the real danger was going to come from a communist revolution when the real threat lay on the right.
Victor SebestyenGUEST
As it turned out, it was a vast strategic mistake.
Roland Elliott BrownHOST
Kind of a familiar Cold War story.
Tyler FoggattHOST
Jon Allsop is a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
Tyler FoggattHOST
You can find his latest piece, What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate?, at newyorker.com.
Tyler FoggattHOST
This has been The Political Scene from The New Yorker.
Tyler FoggattHOST
I'm Tyler Foggett.
Yaron BrookHOST
All right, so a- I mean, look, even, even, uh, people we consider, uh, pretty, um, moderate, right, uh, on, uh, y- y- are taking this position against data centers.
Yaron BrookHOST
So here's Governor Josh Shapiro.
Yaron BrookHOST
Governor Josh Shapiro, who's considered, like, the epitome of moderate Democrat, right? Moderate Democrat.
Yaron BrookHOST
And what is Josh Shapiro, uh, Josh Shapiro's writing today? And he says, "I just signed an executive order implementing the strictest standards in the nation for AI data centers because I will not allow Pennsylvania to be bullied by greedy developers and bulldozed by the lawyers working for these big tech companies." Effective immediately, we're requiring AI data centers to commit to strict environmental and transparency requirements, and receive approval from the local community if they want to build here.
Yaron BrookHOST
That's not all.
Yaron BrookHOST
Just playing to the fearmongers, right? Th- th- this is, this is what we don't get with modern politicians, particularly not with modern politicians who are m- moderate.
Yaron BrookHOST
I-...
Yaron BrookHOST
Moderate's an awful word, but who are not part of the far left or the far right.
Dale JacksonHOST
Which of those three groups? And here they are.
Dale JacksonHOST
Moderates, which we'll say former Republicans and moderate Democrats.
Dale JacksonHOST
The DSA crazies who are...
Dale JacksonHOST
Hey, I took my kid to a drag show.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
His newsletter, a pretty interesting fella.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
In any event, he beat out Moderate, that's Haley Stevens, I believe, and, well...
Trent R. NelsonHOST
He beat out a lot of APAC money as well.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
And that point has has been run through the ringer.
Jessica TarlovHOST
Yeah.
Shane GoldmacherGUEST
So are they gonna be picking one moderate? Are they gonna advance two moderates, and then just one progressive emerges from there? Like, w- who knows, right? Even the voters and how they behave will change, right? Because they're not picking one person to advance.
Shane GoldmacherGUEST
They're really picking probably a handful of them.
Shane GoldmacherGUEST
And the same thing for Nevada, which has, it moved up in the process.
8 MINS LATER
Jessica TarlovHOST
That speech that she gave that was just an economic populist speech from a working-class woman that wants Democrats to win so that people have a better quality of life.
Jessica TarlovHOST
I mean, she left Woke One a long time ago.
Shane GoldmacherGUEST
S- she's won over the raging moderates.
Jessica TarlovHOST
I mean- Like, in the Democratic primary field, there are going to be candidates who I think are more aligned with me on a policy level, but does she excite me and the people who listen to this podcast? Yeah, I think that she does, and she played this primary season so well, especially with Graham Plattner, who, you know, we said maybe it's because she's a bartender, was a bartender, that she had this spidey sense about this guy.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now compared to the, like, real core DSA wing, like the far, far left stuff, like the Daria Liza, AOC is like a moderate Dem on a comparative basis.
Daniel CohenHOST
Yeah, that's a fair point.
Daniel CohenHOST
Moderate.
Daniel CohenHOST
[laughs] She's no moderate, guys.
Daniel CohenHOST
AOC is not a moderate, but they've tricked you.