it is the reporters and pundits themselves making these choices to emphasize these things and try to infuse them with some larger meaning, that somehow tells you something important about what this person will do as president of the united states. it is much easier to do that than ask a smart question about the trump tariffs or foreign policy or tax policy. it is political reporters themselves and the political pundits themselves who, as matthew iglesias puts it, sideline the substantive steaks in american politics. they are going to continue to do that, and it is your job to continue to ignore it. that s why every presidential candidate interview we have done on this program has been exclusively about what policies that candidate will pursue and support as president.
trump is not a man of the people. but donald trump s voters wisely did not care about that. anti-trump voters didn t care about it. no one voted against donald trump because he uses a fork to eat a bucket of fried chicken. but the news media will continue to pretend that this stuff matters. it is a habit they just cannot kick. matthew matthew iglesias of fox, with whom i cannot remember last time i disagreed, observed this is more seriously with democratic candidates than republican nominees. every democratic nominee is inevitably put through a series of au then sisity tests that republicans are exempted from because it s in the interest of the rich people who run the media to sideline the substantive steaks in american politics. yes, that is what happen but not why it happens. the rich people who run the media could not care less about
cheese steaks or fried chickens. it is the reporters and pundits themselves making these choices to emphasize these things and try to infuse them with some larger meaning, that somehow tells you something important about what this person will do as president of the united states. it is much easier to do that than ask a smart question about the trump tariffs or foreign policy or tax policy. it is political reporters themselves and the political pundits themselves who, as matthew iglesias puts it, sideline the substantive steaks in american politics. they are going to continue to do that, and it is your job to continue to ignore it. that s why every presidential candidate interview we have done on this program has been exclusively about what policies that candidate will pursue and support as president.
trump is not a man of the people. but donald trump s voters wisely did not care about that. anti-trump voters didn t care about it. no one voted against donald trump because he uses a fork to eat a bucket of fried chicken. but the news media will continue to pretend that this stuff matters. it is a habit they just cannot kick. matthew iglesias of fox, with whom i cannot remember last time i disagreed, observed this is more seriously with democratic candidates than republican nominees. every democratic nominee is inevitably put through a series of au then sisity tests that republicans are exempted from because it s in the interest of the rich people who run the media to sideline the substantive steaks in american politics. yes, that is what happen but not why it happens. the rich people who run the media could not care less about cheese steaks or fried chickens.
democrats, as you noted, republicans are defending a lot more states. it s difficult for them. although, matt iglesias wrote a good piece about this where republicans do have built-in advantages here. one of them that he noted that i think is true and doesn t get as much attention as it should is republicans at the state level actually show a lot more ideological flexibility in the candidates that they nominate. we ve heard a ton about the tea party and kind of the right wing populist elements that are driving these races. and that s true in many races and it s certainly true in the national presidential primaries so far as we ve seen. by at the state level, we actually do see republicans nominated pragmatic candidates who can appeal to moderate and liberal left-leaning voters. and that could be something that democrats have to contend with. well, yeah, matt to that end, you write that republicans will sometimes down play their social conservatism when it s a state that favors more e