Jul 16, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min · 12 segments
YO!! Mikey and I are joined by Chris Cutrone and Doug Lain to talk about their documentary on the twenty-twenty-four US election! We also talk a bit about the Campaign for a Socialist Party! Check out…
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this deeper feeling, the final election.
And so maybe, I mean, do you guys feel like we've crossed a threshold where, w- I don't know, electoral politics has entered a different phase, and it's, it's the final election in a sense?
Well, I end the film by saying we have to accept that it's the last election of a kind, but certainly not just, like, multi-party Democratic, you know, voting election.
Sure
... m- many, many more elections, but I think that we are s- going to have different kinds of parties and different kinds of concerns than we've had in the past, and that b- basically this reflects the fact that both parties, as Chris was saying, are in crisis.
And if we manage to remember what things were like last year or the year before and 10 years, it won't be recognizable, the, the difference.
Yeah, but here's a-
... here's a deeper...
I mean, que- guys, can Americans remember?
Like, I, I...
It seems like this thing...
And it's not just younger Americans.
I think it's our generations too, like, where we seem to struggle so much with historical memory in this country.
You know?
There is the 24 news cycle that sort of engenders a kind of amnesia, and I'm familiar on the left that the left sort of has this kind of neurotic amnesia where it's constantly repressing its experience in order to deny its miserable reality.
...
this deeper feeling, the final election.
And so maybe, I mean, do you guys feel like we've crossed a threshold where, w- I don't know, electoral politics has entered a different phase, and it's, it's the final election in a sense?
Well, I end the film by saying we have to accept that it's the last election of a kind, but certainly not just, like, multi-party Democratic, you know, voting election.
Sure
... m- many, many more elections, but I think that we are s- going to have different kinds of parties and different kinds of concerns than we've had in the past, and that b- basically this reflects the fact that both parties, as Chris was saying, are in crisis.
And if we manage to remember what things were like last year or the year before and 10 years, it won't be recognizable, the, the difference.
Yeah, but here's a-
... here's a deeper...
I mean, que- guys, can Americans remember?
Like, I, I...
It seems like this thing...
And it's not just younger Americans.
I think it's our generations too, like, where we seem to struggle so much with historical memory in this country.
You know?
There is the 24 news cycle that sort of engenders a kind of amnesia, and I'm familiar on the left that the left sort of has this kind of neurotic amnesia where it's constantly repressing its experience in order to deny its miserable reality.
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