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Nov 9, 2026

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Greg SargentHOST
0:41
This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
Greg SargentHOST
0:46
I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
Greg SargentHOST
0:57
Republicans are now openly fretting that their disastrous midterm losses could badly complicate their path to victory in the 2028 presidential race.
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Greg SargentHOST
1:14
This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
Greg SargentHOST
1:20
I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
Greg SargentHOST
1:30
Republicans are now openly fretting that their disastrous midterm losses could badly complicate their path to victory in the 2028 presidential race.
Chad LawHOST
44:29
But the doubts are already earned.
Chad LawHOST
44:31
Within three days of winning on affordability, here's Congressman Ro Khanna quoted in The New Republic.
Chad LawHOST
44:36
Make him veto Medicare for all.
Chad LawHOST
44:38
Make him veto a $25 living wage.
Liza FeatherstoneGUEST
4:19
You had the centrists and the Roy Coopers winning in places where they were well-suited to win.
Liza FeatherstoneGUEST
4:26
Just a few days before the election, I had written a piece for the New Republic saying, We as Bernie Sanders supporters, people would always say, Bernie would have won if there hadn't been all those shenanigans by the DNC in 2016.
Liza FeatherstoneGUEST
4:44
And then again, to some extent in 2020, if Bernie had the chance to go up against Trump, he would have won.
Liza FeatherstoneGUEST
4:51
And there's definitely reason to believe that's true, but we will never know whether that's really true, because polling isn't the same as an election, and certainly a lot would have been thrown against Bernie.
Thomas777GUEST
41:29
um under fdr obviously but even truman the press academia um probably the entire commentariat especially in foreign policy um matters they were firmly behind the president um they viewed congress as being full of opportunists these kind of parasitic careerists you know like men who uh We're constantly looking to obscure the reality of policy in favor of cheap polemic, you know, to basically just, you know, kind of like guarantee their own permanent incumbency.
Thomas777GUEST
42:04
You know, even the New Republic, this was in 1953, which was, you know, when Truman was approaching kind of, Isn't it dear of approval in the court of public opinion? You know, because the Korean War was an incredibly unpopular war, especially the Drag Don, among other things.
Thomas777GUEST
42:31
The New Republic was quoted as saying, quote, the current gravitation of power under the hands of Congress at the expense of the executive is a phenomenon so fatuous as to be incredible if the facts were not so patent.
Thomas777GUEST
42:44
That's the New Republic,
Thomas777GUEST
42:46
you know,
Thomas777GUEST
42:47
which in the 50s was, um, Dividing its time between screaming that everybody in America is racist and talking about how great the Soviet Union is.
ThomasGUEST
40:48
um under fdr obviously but even truman the press academia um probably the entire commentariat especially in foreign policy um matters they were firmly behind the president um they viewed congress as being full of opportunists these kind of parasitic careerists you know like men who uh We're constantly looking to obscure the reality of policy in favor of cheap polemic, you know, to basically just, you know, kind of like guarantee their own permanent incumbency.
ThomasGUEST
41:23
You know, even the New Republic, this was in 1953, which was, you know, when Truman was approaching kind of, Isn't it dear of approval in the court of public opinion? You know, because the Korean War was an incredibly unpopular war, especially the Drag Don, among other things.
ThomasGUEST
41:49
The New Republic was quoted as saying, quote, the current gravitation of power into the hands of Congress at the expense of the executive is a phenomenon so fatuous as to be incredible if the facts were not so patent.
ThomasGUEST
42:03
That's the New Republic, you know, which in the 50s was, um, Dividing its time between screaming that everybody in America is racist and talking about how great the Soviet Union is.
ThomasGUEST
42:16
This wasn't the Wall Street Journal and it wasn't a bunch of John Birchers and it wasn't a bunch of dissident America firsters who had hoped to see Robert Taft become the president.
ThomasGUEST
42:27
This was literally a bunch of reds saying this.
Meenakshi RaviCORRESPONDENT
2:57
Vice President J.D. Vance was the one who made the link most explicit between the war in Iran and the losses in the election.
Meenakshi RaviCORRESPONDENT
3:03
He posted a 600-word essay on X. I asked two people about this, Alex Shepard, who's with The New Republic magazine, and Rob Arlett, who is a Republican strategist and used to work with the Trump campaign.
Meenakshi RaviCORRESPONDENT
3:14
Let's start with what Arlett had to say.
Rob ArlettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:15
It is very significant for a sitting vice president of the United States to come out basically acknowledging that the Iran war was significant in the voters' decision.
Amy BernsteinHOST
47:04
Lepore's core argument, which we'll read in a moment, her core argument is that the reason that we have managed in previous eras of history to not kill each other in phases of declining democracy is because of the courage of simple people to step up and build the fiber of a strong society.
Amy BernsteinHOST
47:26
She writes in 1937, The New Republic, arguing that, quote, at no time since the rise of political democracy have its tenants been so seriously challenged as they are today.
Amy BernsteinHOST
47:39
Kurtzer says, I love reading that over and over because I feel like I read that this morning.
Amy BernsteinHOST
47:44
The New Republic ran a series on the future of democracy.
Amy BernsteinHOST
47:47
The editors asked each writer, do you think that political democracy is now on the wane? The series' lead contributor, the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, took issue with the question, as philosophers thankfully do.
Amy BernsteinHOST
48:04
I call this question meteorological.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
2:01
And well, what's going to come next? And of course, wouldn't you know, we have one of them friends with us right now.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
2:06
His name is Greg Sargent, The New Republic, Daily Blast.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
2:10
You can catch it every day, every weekday, I should say.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
2:14
And well, we bring on Greg when we need to know what's cooking, what's going on in the political world.

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Caitlin M. GreenHOST
33:06
It is
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
33:06
adorable that he thought that.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
33:08
Sir, Greg Sargent, The New Republic, Daily Blast, Blue Sky, you find them all over the place.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
33:15
We got to let you go sooner than later, but we're going to squeeze one more probably long, thoughtful question out of you.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
31:57
He was previously a national correspondent for The Week.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
31:59
His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Current Affairs.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
32:03
Welcome back to the program, Ryan.
Ryan CooperPANELIST
32:05
Glad to be here.

11 MINS LATER

Arnie ArnesenHOST
43:05
But once you start narrowing that portfolio, guess what? You can't find the finest people for the jobs that you need them for.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
43:14
And I'm going to also say something to you, Ryan, because of the American prospect.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
43:17
So there was an article at the New Republic and it was it was posted on November 3rd and it was entitled Bernie Sanders is on the ballot.
Arnie ArnesenHOST
43:25
against Trump's Tuesday midterm elections offer at last attest to the most important question in Democratic politics.

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