The Democrats Could Still Screw This Up
Can the Democrats finally seize on President Trump’s increasing unpopularity and end their slump? It seems to me as though 2026 is providing them ample opportunity. But I wanted to know what they actually stand for. Have they learned anything about immigration? Are they ready for the new politics of artificial intelligence? To find out, I asked someone I consider a true man of the left, Chris Hayes, the host of “All In With Chris Hayes” on MS NOW.
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:09 - Democrats: The state of play in 2026
- 06:46 - How Israel fractures the Democrats
- 09:19 - Immigration reform beyond the “old consensus”
- 19:46 - Models for Democratic leadership: Mark Kelly, Ruben Gallego, Rafael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff
- 27:22 - 2028: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and “the Hillary Clinton problem”
- 30:41 - The politics of attention
- 36:19 - The challenges of achieving a Leftist society
- 45:37 - A Leftist case against A.I.
- 1:04:23 - Will A.I. define the 2028 election?
(A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.)
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