Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

Your O’Malley interview was interesting: you kept asking inside baseball questions (“Who do you think will be the democratic nominee in 2028?” “What do you think of Kamala and should she run again?” ) and he kept going back to “if we want to govern , we have to win!” So my question is do we democrats want to govern or do we just want to win? What would we have done if we had won other than keep out Trump? Would we govern only in the interest of blue states or even do that? Great show keep up the good work !!

I tried to listen to this for a while to get a more broad perspective on what’s going on in political media but unfortunately Tara seems to be like most mainstream media outlets where she’s more just filtering talking points from insiders rather than doing actual journalism. She seems to fall into the trap that balance is not the same as objectivity

Tara, your takes on Biden’s pardons were deeply unserious. Trump is Godzilla-stomping on the rules, norms, checks and balances, and decency that used to form the foundation of our democracy and yet you attack Biden for shielding his family in a bunker with pardons while Kash Patel looks likely to be given a job where he can baselessly attack Trump’s political enemies. Please try to do better.

Yuck