'Should the Dems Pick a Fight?' with Michelle Goldberg

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Amanda and Faiz are joined by Michelle Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. The three of them rate the Biden administration's performance, discuss the Democrat's branding problem, and get into a debate over how Biden should deal with Senators Manchin and Sinema's intransigence on filibuster reform. They also consider whether the Democrats should strategically pick a fight in order to motivate their base and how the party can recruit more candidates from working class backgrounds – like India Walton, its recently elected mayoral nominee in Buffalo. They end the episode on an optimistic note, as Goldberg explains what it's like to see New York City begin to emerge from the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Saudi Arabia's economy is transforming. What's behind it? The Public Investment Fund, or PIF.
0:07.1	It's one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, creating 13 new sectors,
0:12.2	66 companies, and more than 500,000 direct and indirect jobs so far. PIF is also the first
0:19.5	sovereign wealth fund to issue a green bond supporting Saudi Arabia's 2016 Net Zero emissions target.
0:26.6	Find out more at pif.gov.sa.
0:34.3	I'm Fashikir. I'm Amanda Littman. And this is Balagrown, the podcast from the recount and I heart
0:39.3	radio.
0:47.2	This week we're talking to Michelle Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning op-ed columnist for the
0:51.2	New York Times. We get her take on the Biden administration's performance. Today,
0:55.2	we discuss the Democrats' branding problem and my personal favorite. We talk a little bit about
1:00.0	life in New York City as the city starts to open up from the pandemic. And for once, we actually
1:05.2	end this conversation on a positive note. Yeah, that's nice to switch things up every now and
1:09.4	again and be optimistic. Speaking of optimism, FAS, let's talk for just a moment about infrastructure.
1:16.8	To recap, for those who maybe like me have been tuning out of this a little bit,
1:21.8	here's what's going on. President Biden announced a bipartisan breakthrough on infrastructure.
1:26.8	During his press conference, he said he wouldn't sign that bill unless he also got a reconciliation
1:32.0	bill that had funding for things like childcare, clean energy, and other democratic priorities.
1:36.9	After getting a lot of heat from Republicans, he almost immediately walked that back.
1:41.3	There has been a lot of talk about this. And I think it's worth taking a few minutes to break it
1:45.7	all down. So FAS, you're the expert. What's going on? Well, I'm not as worried as many of our friends
1:51.5	on the left, let me start with that and say that President gets paid the big bucks and has to
1:56.9	make hard decisions and juggle a lot of different things. And one thing he's trying to do right now
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