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Were You REALLY Better Off Four Years Ago?
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Were You REALLY Better Off Four Years Ago?

Some voters have forgotten why they voted Trump out. Here's our stab at how that happen and whether Democrats can remind them they were right in the first place.
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This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:

  • How Donald Trump wriggled away from his disastrous pandemic response and the horribleness of 2020;

  • Whether Joe Biden’s pandemic response made voters more inclined to forgive Trump;

  • The extent to which the switcheroo was the product of rational thinking vs. the political strategies of the two parties.

Then, paid subscribers get a prospective look at how Democrats persuade voters that their initial instinct to vote Trump out was correct. Can they raise the salience of the pandemic annus horribillis again after almost everyone has moved on? Will they ask the canonical question: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Would they forgive Biden for a year of inflation if they understood it as part of the long, difficult process of fixing an economy Trump broke—and will break again? Upgrade to find out!

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Politix is a weekly podcast about the 2024 election from Brian Beutler, Matthew Yglesias, and some occasional guests. We’ll have some good-faith disagreement, some points of consensus, and an overall effort to focus on what’s really at stake in November. Subscribe for new episodes each Wednesday and listen wherever you get your podcasts.