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The Telos News Podcast with Ryan LizzaSimon Rosenberg on Trump's decline and the expanding "circle of defiance"Simon Rosenberg has long been one of the most interesting and original thinkers in the Democratic Party’s strategist class. I’ve been talking with him about politics on and off for over twenty years, and he is frequently ahead of the curve.During an hour-long conversation yesterday, we dicussed why he thinks Trump’s polling drop may be irreversible, the contagious effects of what he calls the “circle of defiance” against Trump, what the media gets wrong in its coverage of MAGA, his advice for Democrats eager to take advantage of Trump’s recent vulnerabilities, why he thinks th...2025-05-101h 00
The Conversation with Dasha BurnsDemocrats' 'optimistic apostle' offers hope for the midtermsSimon Rosenberg is the head of the progressive think tank NDN, and he has a message for jittery Democrats on the eve of the midterms: cheer up! This week on the Playbook Deep Dive podcast we sit down with the Democratic Party’s apostle of optimism.“I'm not sitting here and telling you we're going to win,” Simon told us over lunch this week. “What I'm telling you is that the narrative about this election, about there being a red wave— there isn't one. There never has been.”If you spend a lot of time on political...2022-11-0455 min