Lisa Corrigan on Democrats' failure to communicate

Описание: Following her recent electoral defeat, many people have questioned why Kamala Harris didn't go on to the podcast of Joe Rogan, the standup comedian and sports commentator who has the number-one podcast in the world.

For the record, Harris’s former advisers have said that they tried to coordinate a time with Rogan, but they very obviously did not make it a priority.

The more interesting related question that other people have been asking post election is why is there no left-wing Joe Rogan?

The immediate answer is that there is not a full-service Democratic ecosystem that includes media, legal, and local components. There are also some larger reasons why Rogan and other libertarian-oriented people have signed up with the Republican Party, after having hated it in the 1990s and 2000s when party was less radical.

But there are some more specific reasons for why Rogan and people like him have become de facto Republicans that are especially relevant since Rogan himself supported involve how the Democratic Party communicates, or rather, that it doesn't, to the public.

In recent decades, Democrats and the American left as a whole have moved to a communication strategy which focuses more on controlling the message in every possible way rather than trying to forcefully advocate and explain its ideas to people who have never heard them.

Joining me to discuss on this episode is Lisa Corrigan, she's a professor of communications and gender studies at the University of Arkansas. She's also the author of several different books, including Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation.


TIMECODES
00:00 Introduction
03:41 Democratic leaders' excessive desire to control all media encounters
08:58 Howard Stern, Joe Rogan, and the rise to dominance of casual infotainment
14:27 Democrats have lost the urge and the ability to debate
23:48 Democrats' post-graduate economic bubble
27:46 Republicans overthrew their obsolete party establishment, can Democrats?
32:21 How "The West Wing" encouraged Democrats to adopt a fictional communications strategy
35:51 Kamala Harris's initial media interview strategy and Democrats' total risk aversion
40:46 Trump targeted disengaged Americans with media appearances, Harris with advertisements
43:30 Why did Democrats lose ground with women despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
47:40 The Democratic Party doesn't want to talk to low-information voters
55:37 As Democrats have won more prosperous voters, they've become less interested in economic populism
01:00:22 The ALEC behemoth outside the Beltway
01:04:35 Conclusion