Newman: Trump win would force Democrats toward Sanders-style economic populism
Michael Newman · E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more! · Nov 4, 2020 · at 51:49
Michael Newman, a political expert guest on the All-In election special, analyzes how a Donald Trump victory in 2020 would break the Democratic establishment's reliance on demography and identity politics.
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“If Trump's victory in 2016 laid waste to the Republican establishment, if he wins again tonight, it will lay waste to the Democratic establishment. And the theory of the case that they've had for 20 years, the sort of, ah, Share a emerging democratic majority case that they just had to sit back and let demography become destiny, and they could just, ah, graft an identity politics onto the same neoliberal economic agenda they've been pushing since the late 19 eighties, and it would all just somehow magically produce, ah, majority results in the country. They are going to have to go back to the drawing board, and I think get more populist themselves. And come up with some kind of version of politics that is more in the Bernie mold. It needs to be left, but not woke.”
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