Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSaagar Enjeti: belief
8 Dec 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
“I think the Democratic base is going to give Dean a shit ton of credit, and they should, for him being out.”
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- Speaker
- Saagar Enjeti
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 8 Dec 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…I like how you keep saying you’re biased as if there’s some percent of the population who doesn’t like people to read at all. Okay. What about the future? You hinted at it the future of the Democratic Party. Did you see any talent out there that’s promising? Is it going to be Obama-like figure that just rolls out of nowhere? Clinton is the better example because the Democratic Party was destroyed for 12 years. From the 1980 election to 1992. They’re 12 years out of power. In periods of that long of an era, it takes somebody literally brand new who is not tainted by the previous to convince the base that you can want and convince the country that you’re going in a new direction. So I would not put my money on anybody tainted by the Great Awakening, by TDS, by the insanity of the Trump era. There has to be somebody post that and/or somebody who is able to reform themselves. In my opinion, it will likely not be any establishment politician of today who will emerge for the future. Like I said, my dark horse is Dean. I think the Democratic base is going to give Dean a shit ton of credit, and they should, for him being out. [inaudible 03:23:46].…
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