midterms and that's not going to be easy to run on the back of. So, I mean, I I would rather be running right now as a Democrat for 2028 than as a Republican, but that's a long way away and things can change. We don't know where theeconomy's going to be, we don't know what AI is going to look like, we don't know what the geopolitical space is
midstream and and and and and centered positions. This is, I think, a Christian Democrat conservative CDU position which I would recommend.Member of the European Parliament Hildegard Bentele, thank you so much for joining us here on DW. We appreciate it.
And, you know, it's funny. Democrat congress, Democrat president, Democrat idea, as opposed to "democratic." That's a very interesting frame.
Furthermore, if by going with The New York Times calculation was that Barack Obama's White House, specifically wouldn't do anything particularly aggressive to the most powerful democrat paper in the United States. So that there was a political as well as a legal advantage to tying up with The New York Times.And that also had an influence on our thinking about the third kind of attack, which was a technical one that they might try and, I dunno, crash his website or do something spooky
culture divide is so strong here that even when someone tries to explain the culture divide he ends up looking a Democrat and the Holy Roller Republican and knowing that 50% of the people vote
place to live. Democracy means that power and profit are distributed democratically. That is democracy 3.0. So, for those who maybe didn't clap,
slavery. I mean, absolutely no problem with the institution of slavery. There would be more problems among Republicans, especially with extension of slavery, although many Democrats , white Democrats in the North were against that as well.The white South was overwhelmingly in favor of slavery. You often read the argument, the kind of neo-Confederate argument that they'll talk about how most Confederate soldiers didn't own slaves. That's true.
It's tools like FFmpeg that democratize this. The podcast and streaming revolution, the YouTube revolution- was caused. You know, FFmpeg was a big player in that because it democratized this technology that was once in the nineties, for example, you needed equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to do compression. It was the size of a car, and now everybody has that at almost an exact level playing field, and that's something that's so remarkable.
- Democrats still think the currency of politics is money, and the currency of politics is attention. And that's a huge difference between the two sides right now.
There is no leader. Democrats , Senate Democrats decided to vote for the continuing resolution, avoiding a shutdown, or a critical mass of them then.Hakeem Jeffries, the Leader of the House Democrats and Chuck Schumer, the Leader of Senate Democrats , are in bitter disagreement over whether or not they should have done that.
Hakeem Jeffries, the Leader of the House Democrats and Chuck Schumer, the Leader of Senate Democrats , are in bitter disagreement over whether or not they should have done that. Democratic leadership isn't even united on the single biggest point of leverage they might have had. They disagree over whether or not it was even a point of leverage.
and they were destroying establishment orders all over the world. Democrats happened to be in power, and as a result, they got the brunt of it.That's number one. Number two, if you look at elections over the 21st century, two things are true.
you tend to have elections swinging back and forth. Democrats , most Democrats still live in a world, where the thing that they're optimizing for and attention is to not get negative attention.
you tend to have elections swinging back and forth. Democrats feel like they get trashed in 2024, and in a way they did, but Trump's popular vote victory was the smallest popular vote victory since 2000,
would argue today if we're going to find a cure for cancer, it's going to be through AI. If we're going to democratize education, it'll be through AI. If we're going to do some advances on space research and travel, it'll be through AI. Productivity in the S&P 500 and it's all small companies, AI. And
reality is a future person. We we're in New York right now. Zoran Mdani, a democratic socialist, is the mayor of New York City, which is like the capital of global capitalism and finance in the world. What does that tell you? That tells you that there's still a demand
the first bombs that killed the supreme leader that uh killed those other several dozen doves that he was meeting with? Democrats . If you start to actually have deaths here, this is going to lead to a
clear to me with someone like Barack Obama, one of the more popular politicians in the party if not the most popular politician in the country on the Democratic side, but you don't hear progressives talk about Obama-ism with much love. Even El Sayed was quite critical of how Obama used his time in office. So, I wanted to use that as a proxy for this larger kind of debate
necessarily love it, but she's going to support him in the general because beating Republicans is what's most important. Would you support a Democratic nominee for president that was, you know, awash in AIPAC money or who didn't support Medicare for all, but JD Vance is on the other side?
Hakeem Jeffries is not nationally popular, either. And that's because people wanted more. People wanted the Democrats to fight back. They wanted Democrats to represent them, and they lost confidence in the party.I want to untangle what you just said.
grips it's in right now. Um and you know we think ideas are central to that. How how much of your mission is within the Democratic party and steering the direction versus uh kind of a broader opposition of Donald Trump? I think it's both. I think it's uh you know when I came back to CAP and ever
Justin Trudeau was not going to win. Democratic party about um the left and the insurgency, but it
People like AOC, Kamala Harris, or outsiders like George Clooney, who of course made his mark in the last Democratic presidential campaign with that op-ed calling for Biden to drop out. And on the Republican side, of course, there's J.D. Vance. But what about Marco Rubio, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or if Donald Trump runs again?
All right. That's I was just going to say that. He also has He's trying to appeal to moderates, independents, and perhaps Democrats right now. And it is It appears to me to be extremely obvious he's doing it.Yeah. Um, but some some people think it's there's a subtlety there. I don't think it's subtle.
Democratic Party itself. You positioned yourself just against establishment politics at large, but folks like Chuck Schumer, the
Democrats in a different direction and is trying to win an internal party fight that is happening right now.
Democratic Party, and I love my party. I just want it to be better. Those of us in the Democratic Party who are out
democratic channels are very questionable. And so, yeah.
Democratic Party into a party that can consistently defeat Republicans and not continuously lose to Donald Trump. And
Democrats . So Grant Platner is kind of like the next iteration of that strategy. Will it
Democratic Party. And I've also, when challenged, put my morals and my principles over my career
Democrats should go anywhere and everywhere to make their case and to argue against people who are bigoted.
Democrats prioritize niche identity based groups. I guess I'm asking, how do
Democratic socialist, won in New York, right, and Cheryl and Spamberger won in New Jersey and Virginia, they were both moderates.
Democrats are talking more and more about this issue, and the reason why is that it cuts across a unique slice of
Democrats aren't just talking about corruption for corruption's sake.
Democratic-held to Republican-held. And if we assume that the maps that passed in Tennessee and Alabama,
Democrats in Congress vote to block billions of dollars in military aid. And and this leads, I guess, to my
Democrats asked about Republicans-- I forget the precise number, but do you think an absurd amount of them are millionaires, an absurd proportion.
democratized Innovation Eric is a graduate of of Harvard college MIT and
democratize the quality of education for everyone. Where that's where I see tech playing a huge role in that
Democratic Loaf America would have gone fascist a long time ago if there had not been those to join that 11 to push
democratizing access to information. It is in that sense the the culmination of 4 and a half thousand years of
democratic and democratizing institutions. And, um, I believe we should invest in each other and invest in each other's kids. So when I look at public schools and I asked
Democrats and Republicans previously had been very much at odds with each other, and then you get, at least for a moment, this common enemy,
democratic choice under conditions of pervasive surveillance.
democratic but FOIA is broken.
democratic movement metastasizing, having some parts of it metastasize into radicalization, into really sort
Democratic Party. And I ran into this large caravan.
democratized journalism, and just the ability to get your story out in the way that you wanted to get it out,