On this episode of Start Making Sense, Bhaskar Sunkara on working-class issues, and Sophia Lin Lakin on the ACLU’s preparations.
Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on October 28, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.(Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
New research suggests what messages win working-class votes in Pennsylvania—strong economic populism, and not Trump’s threat to democracy. Bhaskar Sunkara, The Nation’s president, is on the podcast to discuss.
Also: The ACLU has been preparing for Election Day threats to voting and vote counting for years. Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU’s voting rights project, explains.
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The first big election of 2025 will be in Wisconsin, which elects a new Supreme Court Justice on April 1. Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions in that race. That’s both a threat, and an opportunity for Democrats. On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols will comment.
Also: How did we end up with Trump back in the White House? We got here in part because Republicans built a movement over several decades centered on what are called “the culture wars.” But there’s a long history behind the culture wars, going back at least a century to the Scopes Trial, in 1925, about teaching evolution. It’s still an issue today. Adam Hochschild is on the show to explain.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.