actually, there has become more ideological diversity now than ever before. but, jen, this is what almost made my head explode. i m reading this, and you have a guy in 2022 saying, oh, people on the right, they can t live in a bubble like progressives. and you re right, a lot of progressives live in bubbles, and they usually lose elections unless they re from the most woke parts of brooklyn. progressives live in bubbles, we ll all admit it. it drives us crazy but to suggest that people on the right wing can t live in bubbles, like he s writing this at the age when a lot of my friends from earlier days, a lot of my church members from earlier days, a lot of my family members, still family members, they come at me
you lose elections. the trump bubble has cost republicans time and time again. in 2012, republicans were in a bubble as well. mitt romney, everybody on the campaign, they watched fox news all day. they looked at gallop polls. they thought they were ahead of barack obama by eleven points. they read drudge. they were certain late into the evening they were going to win. i remember karl rove saying those numbers can t be right because even karl rove was inside a bubble, an information bubble. he s not in that bubble now, but we can get in our bubble if we re not careful, but right now, it s the right that s losing election after election after election. why can t they see that? what are they saying inside their bubble about their elections? jen, i sometimes wonder, and i m serious about this.
the party of educated urban elites. the gop belongs to white working class. if you re on the right, you simply can t isolate yourself from the habits and attitudes of left liberal progressivism. they are everywhere. the conservative voters who follows nothing but right wing accounts on social media still sees cnn as a captive audience at airports. he attends a concert by the local symphony orchestra and has to listen to a four-minute lecture about systemic racism or climate change before the music starts. there is no bubble. no silo for such person. the left liberal outlook as triumph across american culture, but that has robbed progressives to criticism themselves or doubt their own righteousness. progressives have become, if i could put it bluntly, incurious
going to lose because you re going to be out of whack with the country. we saw that play out in such a way, with election denialism. everybody in the bubble on the right wing thought could not be defeated and it was a little over a month ago. at some point we re going to need to learn about the process about the measure of the speed of a bird to make it appropriate for john kerry to shoot it out of the sky. this will require a deep dive in a later snow. how do you do that, and how much practice did it take? back then in 2004, everybody had a barn jacket on the democratic side, right, one of those looking rural barn jackets, even if that wasn t actually who they were, and everybody went out and showed they could shoot a gun. that would never happen in a democratic primary today. certainly that has changed. to jen s point, there are bubbles on the left as well. it seems this is a particularly pervasive problem, joe, on the
training the rioters, the insurrectionists. and then you ve got one of the most important players in getting kevin mccarthy the speakership, saying her regret is that they didn t bring guns to the insurrection. i mean, again, this is just proving my point. republicans are in a bubble. they re going to keep losing elections because they re not talking about inflation. they re not talking about health care costs going up. they re not talking about how hard it is for first time home buyers to get a house. they re not talking about the kitchen table items that matter the most to americans who decide elections. yeah, joe, you re exactly right. news flash to marjorie taylor greene and kevin mccarthy, the tactics you have been using, the rhetoric you have been espousing over the past six years has not been working. joe, you talked about this time and time again on this show.