The Midterms Will Be a Referendum on MAGA (Neon Liberalism #90, with Greg Sargent)
How elites got hoodwinked by the vibe shift.
In this podcast, host Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Greg Sargent, staff writer for The New Republic and host of the Daily Blast podcast, discuss Trump's cratering poll numbers—worse than Bush's after Katrina—and what that means for the country, including how elites got hoodwinked by the vibe shift, why MAGA isn't working, and whether a major realignment is coming.
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