A tale of two interviews
My pub day conversations with Nate Silver and Sari Botton
I was fortunate to have two really interesting live conversations yesterday — ostensibly about my new book but going well beyond that — with Nate Silver of Silver Bulletin and Sari Botton of Oldster Magazine. If you didn’t get to see those in real time, I’m posting the recordings below.
Nate and I covered a wide array of ground about the modern US political parties, including:
The differences between the two parties in terms of how they nominate people
What it means for a party to be “strong”
How to understand electability and ideology in the age of Trump
What it’s like to be a political scientist these days
What people tend to get wrong about Trump
Whether the Democrats are better or worse off for trying to steer nominations towards Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Anyway, it’s all here:
And then I had a great conversation with Sari (great big cousin, even better writer/editor) about:
Just who local Republican leaders are and what was surprising about them in 2024
Whether Hillary Clinton is right saying that Democrats should have had a competitive nomination process to replace Biden
Why Republican members of Congress today act so differently toward Trump than Republican members of Congress acted toward a scandal-plagued, second-term Richard Nixon in 1973-74
What the future holds for the Republican Party
You can watch here:
My thanks to both of them for helping with the rollout. I hope you’ll get a chance to listen!
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Terrific topic . Yes we need to be informed even if the truth is disturbing.
I enjoyed the interview with Nate Silver, who I have followed off and on for decades and is a multi-talented statistician and gamester.
I saw his note just now about the conversation, which answered one question I had during it, namely why you two didn't talk more about the 2016 general election, the most consequential (its outcome has changed the game in national elections until the present), and most difficult to explain: the explanation is that you previously wrote the book about it, "Learning from Loss".
That's the one I want to read, the Republican party can go and shove it, entirely; its future should be fracture and devolution to a regional party, as it has proven once again its failure to govern.