It’s February and the Plain English feed is still re-airing Best Of episodes. Any word on when the pod is coming back? I miss Derek!

One of the things about the recent episode with Priya Parker that jumped out at me, was how both Trump and Mamdani built a sense of community, and made the people invested to feel like a part of their campaigns- which seemed so much more inspiring than the tepid onslaught of fundraising emails sent on a daily basis..

So my question is- which potential candidates do we think are capable of building that sense of community around their campaign, which maybe have done this successfully in their states and districts, and is creating a campaign around a community investment in the candidate something we should prioritize in 2028?

I talk to a foreigner who hates what's happening in America but wants more understanding of what's going on and why. What's the best interview from Ezra for this

Thoughts on Ezra's renowned colleague raising a five-alarm fire for conservatives? I mean, I certainly think Trump is becoming more unpopular, but I can probably think of 15 different times I would have guessed that Trump would have lost the country. He didn't.

Is it really different this time?

This article is about to Democrat's attempt to regain religious voters, after winning their lowest share ever of the group in 2024. Relates to Klein as it discusses his interview with James Talarico

This article is related to Ezra's interview with Gavin Newsom and the 2028 presidential election. Newsom will probably be one of the major primary candidates.

So as well all now know the facts would bear out that, in reality, these two parts of his life were deeply intertwined and essentially everyone in his orbit affirmatively knew he was a pedophile and often asked him to get them sexual favors. If the birthday card shit wasn’t enough, now we have the trove of emails from Elon and others.

So with that my question is:

1. Why hasn’t Ezra addressed this?

2. Why haven’t we asked ourselves the implications of this? What did our security services know and when did they know it? Why did they allow this to go on, including with 2 presidents? What other intelligence services knew about this and used this and/or are using this against our elite political actors?

3. Given trump is probably the single most guilty party in the whole affair besides Epstein himself, why did the democratic party run 3 back to back presidential elections against him without raising this as an issue? Why was this issue not investigated or highlighted? I remember at the time wondering why Kamala didn’t explore this or exploit it given how OBVIOUS this was at the time. Why is that? Why not any of the congressional leadership? Why did they drop the ball on us? Why did they CHOOSE not to exploit the ultimate political scandal - that their opponent was a pedophile?

4. Why is not a plank of the democratic party platform to truly investigate, release, imprison, and exile those involved? Including firings from our intelligence services, barring implicated democratic politicians from the party?