Pod Save America - Can Democrats Lose the Downer Image? + Chris Murphy in Conversation (Crooked Con)

Live from Crooked Con, Jon Lovett talks to Hasan Piker, Symone Sanders Townsend, Tim Miller, and Jessica Tarlov about why Democrats are the party of humorless scolds, how they let that happen, and how the Republicans crackdown on free speech presents and opening for Democrats to be the fun, welcoming party again. Then, Sen. Chris Murphy joins Dan Pfeiffer to talk about the threats we face and why it’s more important than ever for leaders to communicate directly with Americans.
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Duration: 1h 34m
Broadcast on: 12 Nov 2025
Audio Format: other

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All right. He's got people. Everybody here has got people everywhere, even. We're in the Reagan building, baby. I've co-opted your ass. Can't lose control just yet. In his 1992 convention speech, Bill Clinton, who is perfect, set of Republicans who are at the time angry about Murphy Brown being a single mom on television. If other politicians make you feel like you're not part of their family, come on and be part of ours. Republicans were the hall monitors. We were welcoming. Three decades later, Trump found an audience among pretty apolitical comedians and media personalities and their fans who see Democrats as pious and scolding. The Democratic Party is widely reviled. A broad survey of working class voters describe Democrats as, quote, "woke weak and out of touch." Coming out of Tuesday, which was awesome, semaphore's day. We're all living in Montana stand now. Semaphore's day, why go put it best in summarizing the exit polls. What do you think of the Democrats? They stink. Who did you vote for as many Democrats as possible? So where do we go from here? Joining me, our streamer and political commentator, Hassan Piker. MS now, Simone Sanders. The goal works, Tim Miller. And the co-host of the Five, Foxy, who's Jessica Tala. Tim, I want to start with you, and I want to just concede that this is like a big topic, and it can be hard to tease out style from substance, strategy, ideology. But I want to start with that 2024 dynamic. You have Trump and his allies on Rogan and a whole bunch of apolitical shows and media. In hindsight, Democrats say, oh, we need Democrats that can go everywhere. They have to go everywhere just like Trump did. But then we look around and we say, well, who are the Democrats that can do that? And as a former Republican, as a pilgrim in an unholy land, who's gone from viewing Democrats being annoying as an asset

to a liability, where is your head at? Well, I was happy about the woke Sharia in New York, but you don't have to remember that the CIA has taken over in Virginia across the river. So the deep state establishment is also on the rise. Big tent, big tent. You know what, love it. You guys are kind of annoying, and it is something that we're dealing with. And I think that it's important to just accept it and think about it. And the

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