Where do the Democrats go from here?

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the 2024 election, Democrats lost the presidency and control of the Senate. What now? Katie Glueck covers American politics with an emphasis on the Democratic Party for The New York Times. She joins guest host John McCaa to discuss why the Blue Wave never materialized, the current mood of a party marked by in-fighting, and strategies Democratic Party leadership might employ heading into the 2026 mid-terms.

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:06.9	Someone was posting photos.
0:09.2	It was just me naked.
0:10.6	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.
0:14.3	This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Collidercope,
0:19.3	about the rise of deep fate pornography
0:21.0	and the battle to stop it.
0:23.2	Listen to Levitown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.
0:26.5	Find it on the IHeart Radio app,
0:28.2	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.9	From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.
0:42.6	I'm John McKay, in for Chris Boyd.
0:45.3	You know, there was a time when the Democratic Party was considered the party of the working class.
0:50.8	Its advocacy of Social Security, Voting Rights, Medicare, and abortion rights provided some solid
0:57.1	footing in campaigns against the more conservative, business-friendly Republican Party.
1:02.4	Well, a lot of that has now changed.
1:04.5	This past election, the Donald Trump-dominated GOP, won the presidency, the Senate, and then
1:10.6	kept control of the House.
1:12.3	And many of the social policies long championed by Democrats have been either rolled back or eroded,
1:18.4	with much more promised to come.
1:21.2	So how did it all happen?
1:23.1	What's next for Democrats?
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