Politics, Power, and Possibilities

Seg 1 – Political Fourth Acts?
Seg 2 – Democratic Party NYC Branding Problem
Seg 3 – What Lies Ahead for AOC?
Seg 4 – No Escaping 2026 Midterms

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Speaker 4 (01:20):
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Tim, Thank you Mark. Good to be here.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, Tim, we've been watching news reports all week about
how Mayor Eric Adams quitting the mayoral race the coming
this November, is going to impact the actual outcome. Now
there's a lot of talk being offered on, you know,
the different intellectual math, the different percentages which are going

(01:46):
to go this way, are going to go that way.
But Tim, does does it really make any difference at
all that Mayor Adams is no longer in the running.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think it's fair to say at the micro level
it does make some difference, but at the macro level
almost nothing. Eric Adams was in single digits. He was,
you know, his administration was rife with corruption, and he
was seen by New Yorkers as having kind of cozied
up to Donald Trump. Got an incitement thrown out by

(02:20):
the Trump administration. And you know the fact is that
you know Eric Adams, I think was very well intentioned
from the beginning. He had a background in law enforcement
and that's what people wanted. But he proved to be
just just kind of in over his head as Mayor
of New York. The best thing he did was appointing

(02:42):
the police Commissioner, a woman, Ms. Tish, who has gotten
very high marks from everybody and who even Zoradi says
he will keep in her role as chief of police.
But where does Adams eight or nine percent go? That's
probably split. Maybe ye two percent goes to Montani, two

(03:07):
or three percent to Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, the former governor,
Maybe two or three percent percent two occurred at Sleewa,
the Republican candidate who seems intent on running even though
he knows that his participation in the race, oh but
guarantees the Democratic Socialist mam Donni of victory in November.

(03:33):
Mam Donnie's lead has only been increasing incredibly since his
primary victory, and now New Yorker's Democrats are left with
Mam Donnie and Andrew Cuomo, who seems on his last legs.
He's just not the figure that he was when he

(03:53):
were in for governor, and even when he was governor.
So I don't see anything fundamental lead changing in this
race absent the most unforeseen events possible.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
So no, yeah, those black Swan event, no change. They
do they do, they do turn up right the October surprises.
So there's a I think it was it was it
heming Away.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
The problem is Mark that what is there left to
surprise you about. He's already revealed all of his for
He's already proclaimed himself a democratic socialist. You know, he's
already been attacked from every angle, and his lead as
keeps growing very much.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
So there's regarding Andrew Colmer, former governor, there's I think
it was Hemingway who said there's no third act in
American politics. Uh, and you know I was ever mind
to agree with that, but then you know, you see
Donald Trump, I mean he had his third act in
a very real sense.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right, he had his third act stuff. You know, it's
another one of these things that's always true until it's not. Yes,
And you know, it brings to mind when Jimmy Carter
was facing Gerald Ford in the presidency and people said
Ford would win because the shorter of the two men

(05:19):
was never elected president. The shorter guy, well, that had
been true up until nineteen seventy six, but then Carter
won and so it's no longer yeah a thing. So
there are second and third acts in politics. I don't
know that there's fourth acts. But Donald Trump certainly has
been in on a third act and it's his most

(05:42):
compelling act at all.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well you'd kind of hope that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
You always hope that the third act is the most
compelling because you want you want the buzz when people
walk out of the theaters. I think, sticking on this theme,
I know it's slightly off topic, but I think the
only person in at least in my memory, who has
achieved or is about to achieve a fourth act is

(06:07):
Britain's Nigel Farage. He's in terms of making political history
in the United Kingdom. I can't think of anybody who's
really gone from the laughing stock that he was. And
there's a beautiful he was. Actually he did a speech
at Hillsdale Hillsdale College at the short while ago, and

(06:32):
he was saying that when he was in the European Parliament,
he got elected to the European Parliament and he told
everybody that my job is to take Britain out of
the European Union and everybody laughed at him.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
And then the day after the Brexit vote he.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Went in and said you're not laughing now, I A
And then this guy's retired from politics twice.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
He's led the UKIP.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Party that he was deep involved in to win national
elections to the European Parliament twice. Then he did another party,
the Brexit Party, and led them to win a national
election for the European Parliament. He spearheaded the entire Brexit
then retired again and then came back with to head

(07:20):
up Reform again, the party he created. Then after seven attempts,
became a member of Parliament. And now from the latest polling,
and now this is not just the regular polling that
you get, you know, the two thousand people, it's a
new form of polling or it's a newly accepted form

(07:41):
of polling. And what it does it goes to all
the different areas, all the different constituencies and it's like thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen thousand people and it looks like he's going to
be you know, if the election were held today, and
that there's always a caveat there.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
If the election were held today, he would.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Be the leader of the largest party, maybe even close
to a majority. From a laughing stock to Prime Minister
that I would say, that's that's.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Nigel's fourth act.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So as you say to him, but back the whole
point is to say, yes, you're right, nothing's ever true
and sorry, nothing's ever wrong until it happens.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
So let's talk.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Curtis Sliwah, he's he's hoping to benefit from a couple
of points from uh from the Adams camp, and you
mentioned that with him still in the race, that really
just hands it all to uh.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yes around Mamdani.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Do you think between if everybody who was for Sliwa
went for Governor Cuoma from Governor Cuoma, do you think
that would be enough to make a competitive race?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I do not, okay, because Curtis Lee was still a Republican.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And as we can see from the polling in New York,
and this was quite significant that many of the lack
voters who supported Cuomo during the primary are switching over
to Mondani because he's got a D next to his name.
If you have that Democratic label in New York, that's

(09:13):
extremely valuable. And Sliwa being a Republican. Yeah, we've had
Republican mayors before, but we don't have guys who are
basically guardian angels who ride the subways and help secure
public safety, which is a very admirable thing, but it
certainly doesn't qualify Curtis Lee to be mayor of the

(09:35):
most important city in the world. So no, I don't
think that would make the difference. If anything, it could
possibly increase Mondani's lead, but you never know. I mean,
it could be that most of his votes go to
to Cuomo Ho and together with the votes that you

(09:58):
know could go to Donnie from from here. I don't
describing out it would It would make it more interesting,
it would make it more competitive, but I don't think
it would change the ultimate winner in this race. I
just don't see where Mum Donnie can be beaten. Right now, for.

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Speaker 4 (10:41):
We were talking how how little really Eric Adams.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Withdraw from the New York City mail race impacts round
Donnie's chances of winning this November. But what I'd like
to do is kind of expand that and talk about
or get your ideas at least on how do you
think case around Mam Donnie win in New York it's
going to impact that the Democratic Party's perception of the

(11:08):
Democratic Party across the nation.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I think Democratic leaders themselves are very sensitive to
the branding of the party. I mean, there's no question
about it. Because you see pretty much all the major
domos other than New York Governor Kathy hockel Uh shining
away from endorising Mam Donnie. We get things from Schumer

(11:37):
Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, and hi came Jeffries, House
Minority Leader saying we're continuing our conversations with Zora and Mamdani,
which means we're trying to find some way to both
be loyal to a Democratic nominee and yet not brand
the party as far left socialists. And so it's a

(11:58):
very tricky kind of conundrum for Democrats, and a lot
of it is because this is a year where there's
only three races of any national significance, the governor's races
in New Jersey and Virginia, and the New York City
mayoral race, and so all the attention is focused on

(12:21):
New York. So when Mandanni wins, which seems I'm not
going to say certain, but seems highly likely at this point,
now the Democrats but will be left with the branding
of having doubled down on their progressive bent over the
last four years, rather than turning to the center. The

(12:43):
party will be seen as doubling down and tacking even
further left by having a self proclaimed Democratic socialist as
the most high profile winner this year. Now, we saw
what the party did when they were afraid that Bernie
Sanders could become the standard bear for the party as

(13:05):
a presidential nominee in both twenty sixteen and two thousand
and twenty, and they ran him out of the race
essentially by basically telling all the other so called moderate
Democrats to get lost and leave Joe Biden in as
the only alternative in twenty twenty, just like they did

(13:28):
with Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
So that was very democratic of them, by the way,
don't you think.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, not to mention that their nominee this year was
someone who never received a single vote for president after
running twice in well, she didn't really run in twenty
twenty four for the nomination, that she received no support
and likely would not have received the nomination if there

(13:59):
was an open prime process. And in twenty sixteen they
they did everything they could to make sure it would
be Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders. So that tells
you what they feel about the label of socialists in
the Democratic Party. They have to be very careful with that,
but at this point it's out of their control. In

(14:21):
New York City is its own universe. It's far to
the left of mainstream America. Ninety two percent roughly of
New Yorkers identify as Democrats. So they've got themselves a
serious problem on their hands. And so Kathy Hockel is

(14:41):
a good example of what happens. Kathy Hockel, damned if
she does damned if she does it. She was damned
by the likes of Alexandria Cassio Cortez and the other
progressives in the party for not endorsing Mamdani, and then
when she finally did it, endorse Mamdanie. She got attack
from the center by people who said, what are you

(15:03):
doing supporting the socialists? So you see what the problem is,
and it's not going to go away after the November
well actions, assuming man Donning wins, all the reporting, the stories,
the narrative is going to be the Democratic Party has
moved even further left. And they were under Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I like how he discussed this as a branding problem
because after twenty twenty four, Donald Trump won twenty twenty
four because a lot of America thought that the party's
going too far left with Joe Biden, with Kamala Harris.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Now, Kamala Harris is pretty far left. Joe Biden's fairly centrist.
Sure he was.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
He was saying he was centrist in which held captives
progressive wink.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, So you've.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Got this large chunk of America saying that's just too
far left. We need you know, they would be saying
we need somebody Bill Clinton esque.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Who By the way, if you go back.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And you watch some of Bill Clinton's things and some
of his speeches, his proclamation, and you look at me
and think, this guy's maga, this guy's maga in the
nineteen nineties. It's really you know, there's not a lot
of a difference between it when we talk when it
comes down to policy. But see, you've got this big
chunk of America saying this has just gone too far left,

(16:30):
and then Zarah Mandarin presumably wins. And as you say,
it's the most important city in the world in so
many ways, and it's under the control of somebody who
is so far left that it's going to taint the
rest of the party going into not just the twenty
twenty six mid terms, but twenty twenty eight and even beyond.

(16:51):
And I really think that, you know, good luck to
mister Mandanie. I hope he does great for New York City,
but I think his association with the Democratic Socialists what
is actually that the groups that he works with that
he is part of, and the things that they put out.
And you did a great article on this on the

(17:12):
page of liutination dot com talking about how it is
the destruction of the nuclear family in so many ways,
and that just doesn't seem to me to be what
America has an appetite for.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well Mark, you're talking about the Democratic Socialists of America,
which is a party that Zoron Mundane proudly has belonged
to for about eight or nine years, and part and
parcel of their platform is to basically destroy the nuclear

(17:47):
family unit. They've said things like the only difference between
a family and prostitution is what price you have to pay.
These are the kind of statements that really repelled normal Americans.

(18:08):
And I think that you know, Cuomo Andrew Cuomo will
try to use this stuff down the stretch. I don't
think it will be successful. But the difference you brought
up Bill Clinton, and you know what, the fundamental difference
between Bill Clinton and Joe Biden is that Clinton had

(18:29):
really sharp political instincts. He knew where things were headed,
and he brought his party, he tacked them to the middle.
And I hate to use a well worn expression, but
Zorah and Mom donn he represents the Democrats chickens coming
home to roost.

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Speaker 4 (19:35):
Thanks for sticking around. Tim.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
We cannot escape discussion of what's happening in New York City,
what's happening with Democrats across the country unless we talk
about the donkey in the room and that is I
know by donkey here, I mean democrat of course, yeah,
rather than the individual were about mention, and that is
there's so much chatter going on and it's a low buzz,

(19:59):
it's but it's there, and it's prevalent in many, many areas.
And that is representative Alexandria Casio Cortez and a potential
run for the president of the United States.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
What's your thoughts on that, Tim.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't think that even she has a swelled head
big enough to believe she can go from being a
bar attender to president of the United States in ten years.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't know, Tim, I've got to interrupt you on that.
I happen to know that our current president was, you know,
serving out McDonald's fries, not one year ago.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, I stay in corrected, Mark. I do think though,
that it's realistic for her to believe that she could
beat Chuck Schumer in the Senate Democratic primary in New
York in twenty twenty six, because Schumer, ever since he's
so called with Trump, which isn't what he did. He

(21:04):
had two horrible options and he picked the least bad
of them when he decided to avoid a government shut
down months ago, and that made him an extremely unpopular figure,
even though he really was left with little choice but
to do that or shut down the government, which is

(21:26):
of course an issue that's come back to the four
again here in late September early October. So AOC is
a rising storm. She's charismatic, she speaks well, she is
very good at demagoguery, and she inspires Democrats who are

(21:49):
just tired of the old guard of Schumer and Biden
and you know, Elizabeth Warren and all the Democrats who
have failed essentially over the years to consolidate enough support
to get the Democrats back into the White House or
even to win it back in twenty sixteen. They barely avoided,

(22:13):
you know, a loss in twenty twenty, and I think
the old guard is headed on its way out and
for the party, for the Democratic Party, the young blood
is a good thing. But the problem is that all
of the young blood is even further to the left
than Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in

(22:34):
his heart of hearts. So yes, more energy, more youth
with AOC and the squad ilhan Omar and Rashida to
leave and the rest. They're outspoken, they have gots so
to speak, and speaking out in the starkest terms. But

(22:58):
what happens when they actually win. But he definitely Chuck
Schumer is very worried about a challenge from AOC, and
I think what we're going to see happen is Schumer
start to sound more militant over the course of the
next year so that he can tack to the left

(23:22):
and attract enough votes to hold off alexandri Casio Cortes.
If I was betting at this point, dell Mark, I
would put my money on AOC for the New York
Senate seat because Chuck Schumer strikes me as an anachronism
whose time has come and go, and if it ever.
In fact, even King, he was never particularly effective, and

(23:46):
he's not popular with his base, and he doesn't present
well to the public. He has very low public approval. Yes,
AOC presidency, not yet at least eat Yeah, Senate, definitely.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I like what you said there about Chuck Schumer's lack
of appeal because it really it's so strange, like he
puts out those pictures around Thanksgiving and there's raw burgers
with cheese on them. It shows him to be I
don't know, just so so oddball different to the rest

(24:25):
of the human race in the same way that Elizabeth
Warren when she was opening a beer trying to appear
homely and look, I drink a beer, it's like she'd
never seen a bottle of beer in her life. And
it's like Chuck Schumer never been to a barbecue in
his life, and it's a lack of authenticity.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
We saw that with Carmalay Harris too.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yes, she.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Went on the it was a Jimmy Kimmel showing and
he offered her a beer and she said, yeah, the
last time they had one of these was when me
and Doug went to a boarding, which you just knew
was was not true. Well, it was like something rehearsed
to make her seem like an everyday perchaon What's amazing.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, what's amazing is that nobody in the history of
the human race, unless you know that they're they're lying
to their support group, their AA support group.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
The last time I had one of these was was
thirteen months ago.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Can I have my token please? It's so strange.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Back to Alexandria Cousin Cortez, I think you're right that
she would definitely garne a more peel, especially because you know,
New York's quite young city in many ways that the
voting population is young.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
I think Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Has been so secure because nobody's really ran against them
with a competitive primary before. But in terms of AOC's
board momentum, I wonder if she will not be held
back by her associate with the squad we talked about
earlier in the show, and that the majority of America

(26:06):
and I'm not just talking the majority that Donald Trump won,
but I'm talking the majority across you know, both and
all parties are not that far left, and yet you
have that the squad members seemingly competing to be the
most far left or the most radical, or the most
identity politics driven character within Congress, and there's no I mean,

(26:33):
if you wanted somebody who's super far left, if the
party wanted somebody who's super far left, Bernie Sanders would
have won in twenty sixteen or two thousand two. Yes,
but the party doesn't want it, the public doesn't want it.
And I wonder if her continued connection as part of
the Squad, which of course it's the Justice Democrats that

(26:53):
I believe Chank we had quite a lot to do
with setting that up and drawing and funding for that
to continue. Her continued association with that labels her with
the same brush a Tarsi, with the same brush that
a lot of Americans see went when Elma say, some
people did something to describe nine to eleven or any

(27:17):
number of, let's be clear, quite offensive comments to a
large section of society, and not just Republicans. I think
she might find them an anchor around her neck or
an albatross.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Even well, I think, with her pretty strong political instincts,
my sense is that over the next year AOC is
going to distance himself a.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Distance herself, although we shouldn't re shure.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, I said I was transgender, which is always possible.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
That there's an extra a few hundred votes therefore if she.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Said, probably so. But I suspect AOC is going to
try and further distance herself from the squad over the
next year, to try to present as a more serious
political figure rather than a gadfly. She's the only one
on the squad that presents well to the general public

(28:15):
in terms of her the way she speaks, the way
she rallies people. You know, you look at Rashida to Lee,
and you look at Ayana Presley, and you look at
Corey Bush and the rest of these squad members, and
they are absolute left wing bomb throwers who have no

(28:38):
charisma at all. But have you know, the Iohana Omars
of the world continue to take up the far left
flank of the party. And I think AOC is smart
enough politically to know that that's not where she wants
to be anchored. I think she's going to try to

(28:58):
present as quite a bit more mainstream over the next year.
She'll pick and choose a few issues where she can
try to sound reasonable and non threatening to the more
centrist elements of her party and the electorate. Rid laard
I suspect that's where she's going to go. You don't
see her appearing, by the way, with Rashida Talib and

(29:22):
Ilan Omar and Ayana Presley, the other radicals. You don't
see her appearing with them anymore. So clearly she's trying
to make a break and establish her own individual presence
and identity and the narrative of her campaign. And heck,
I mean, she went from a bar attender to Congress.

(29:45):
What's to say she can't go from Congress to the
Senate when she's running against a guy who seems like
he is, let's say, seen better days in Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's all about the narrative to me, you're absolutely right.
Me back with Tim after this short breakdown, go anywhere.

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Speaker 3 (30:18):
I remained Mark Anshleadi's Tim Donner remains as always Tim Donner,
and we can't escape this episode, Tim without discussing the
twenty twenty six mid terms, which, as I know, for
you and I, it's already an obsession this far out,
But as soon as we get past the wind period,
the old Christmas time and whatnot, it's going to be

(30:39):
everybody's obsession. So let's take the far out of you,
and of course a lot can change here. What do
you think of the a the big racist to watch
be the trends that we should be considering.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, I think it's going to be a bridge too
far for the Democrats to try and overcome a six
set deficit in the upper Chamber. Well, it's really a
three seat deficit. It's fifty three forty seven. It seems
unlikely that they could take control of the Senate. They
have to win four seats that they currently don't hold,

(31:14):
and even though they have a much better hand to
play because the Republicans are defending about two thirds of
the seats that are up, I think it looks highly
unlikely that the Democrats could take control of the Senate
no matter what happens between now and next year, unless
we hit literally a deep recession or a depression and

(31:37):
people want to sort of kick the Republican bums out now,
as far as the House goes, it certainly helps that
the state of Texas flipped the rules so that they're
probably going to get five more races that they could win,
which would bring them up to about two twenty five

(32:00):
vacuum instead of two twenty. Right now, they're about two
twenty to two twelve, which is really more like two
twenty to two fourteen because there's two vacant seats from
debts in the Democratic Party that are likely to be
filled by other Democrats. But you know, all the I mean,
we've talked about it, but for the midterms or a

(32:20):
grievance elections in general, grievance about the Dabbs decision in
twenty twenty two, grievance about the economy or whatever in
midterm elections, going all the way back in time, so
they have that built in advantage. But at the same time,
the Democrats, you know, just keep pumping out the bad news,

(32:44):
self inflicted wounds where I don't see where the Democrats
have had any kind of a major since Trump became president.
They haven't won on a single point. They haven't been
able to successfully forced Trump to reverse any of his policies,
they haven't stopped Speaker of the House Mike Johnson from

(33:05):
consolidating in a very impressive way. I might add Republicans
to join enforces, because we know there's a lot of Republicans.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Oh yeah, there's factions, factions, factions, deb flies.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yes. So I think if there was a year where
the Republicans stood a decent shot to maintain their congressional majorities,
it would probably be twenty twenty six. Looking at it
more than a year out, because the sense is that
the economy is probably going to get better, the tariffs

(33:41):
are going to bring in more income, the high profile.
I don't know about the whole issue of deportations because
people voted for it, and yet they don't have the
stomach for a lot of the things that Trump is doing.
It reminds me of the movie A Few Good Men,

(34:01):
where Jack Nicholson says famously, you can't handle the truth.
He goes on to say, you expect me, and you
put me on watch to keep you safe, and then
you object to the means I use to do it. Yeah,
and that's what Americans right now are in the throws.

(34:22):
They can't stomach the ice rates and stuff like that.
Even though they had to know that this is what
it would take to reverse the millions of people who
are allowed to cross the border illegally. So it's still seized.
The Republicans are in good shape, but the Democrats are

(34:42):
so bitterly opposed to Trump and everything that he's done
that they're likely to turn out in huge numbers.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
So I see your point about with Texas adding that five,
it really creates a little cushion.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well, the Democrat done, They've simply done nothing to suggest
that they have learned from twenty twenty four and are
seeking someone like Bill Clinton to bring them towards the center.
If anything, it showed they're going to go even further left,
and that is not appealing get a broad mass of

(35:22):
American voters.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's not where elections are won.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'm reminded of Britain's Prime Minister Kirs Damer, who had
his Labor Party conference, which is the time to launch
his third reset button. Hit his third reset button in
fourteen months, which is a few too many, and he's
now rated as the least popular prime minister that the

(35:45):
country's ever had.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
But he was fast on the heels of the Reform Party.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Under Niger Fras Niger. Farras announced the new policy, which
obviously can't be implemented because he's not in power. He's
not the prime minister, but he said when I am
prime minister, if I'm fortunate enough to become, he says,
what we're going to do is we're going to reverse
what's happening with indefinite leave to remain, which is the
system by which people come to the country then after
they've been in the country for a certain time, they're

(36:13):
allowed to stay for as long as they want. And
he came out and he put this out, and then
the media spent two weeks attacking it is it's the
worst thing ever. The Labor Party on one day on
I think it was a Sunday, was saying it's clearly
a racist policy by a racist party. And then on

(36:33):
Monday they announced a new policy that is almost word
for word just like the one that Nigel Farag had
float and says, yes, but ours isn't racist.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
And that reminds me. You've got the.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
It's driven by different emotional worses, right.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
It reminds me of what's happening.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
We talked about how they don't have their dubs this
year and they may have inflation if inflation takes off,
but it's signally failed to so far.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
They might have a.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Recession or a depression, although it doesn't really look like
it at time of recording. And so what have they got, Well,
they've essentially got to lean into the policies that are working,
appear to be working, we should say, for Donald Trump
at the moment, and then present them as yeah, we're
going to do the same, We're going to control immigration,

(37:28):
but we're going to do it in a non racist way.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
And that's really all they've got to.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Lean into for the elections until they come out with,
as you say, either a Bill Clinton esque type figure
that they can rally around who'll push them back to
the center, or they jettison some of the fire left,
which is not likely to happen when Zara mam Dami's
almost certainly just won the New York City mayor election.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
So what do they have other than recraft.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Policies that they know are popular because Donald Trump want
and on them. But with you know, a Democrat branding
a Democrat spin, which might end up being as unfortunately
simple and dull and tep it as yeah, but it's
not racist.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Well, the problem the Democrats have above all else is
that they are absolutely leader lips. Yes, so they have
no one to lead the parade. Republicans, on the other hand,
are all in on Trump. Trump is leading the parade.
Trump is large in charge. It's his policies or the

(38:34):
highway for Republicans. So there's clear leadership, whether you like
it or not in the Republican Party. The Democratic Party
is all over the map. There are some Democrats who
are complaining they're too far left, Others who are saying
they're not far left enough. Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, who else,
Elizabeth Warren. These people are not leading any kind of parade.

(38:58):
They have no LEADLeadership, so they're sort of all out
there on their own as individuals, and that's no way
to win midterm elections.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Tim Donner, thanks ever so much for being with us today.
Really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
And that's all we have time for on this week's
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Speaker 4 (39:17):
I've been your host, Mark Angelidis.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
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host of this here radio show and Libity Nations senior
political analyst.

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