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Episode: Behind the Democrats’ Losing Strategy
Description: Why the Democrats’ electoral strategy of “hire consultants to tell you which positions poll well enough to take” has run its course—and where they should look to start rebuilding.
Guest: Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate senior writer and author of “How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party”.
Cited in this episode:
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert D. Putnam)
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—And...