Ron Brownstein
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Ron Brownstein is a seasoned political analyst known for his insights into the evolving dynamics of American politics. This interview reveals his ability to foresee and articulate the implications of demographic shifts and political trends, positioning him as a key strategist in understanding electoral landscapes.
“He kind of got a twofer there. And now it is unequivocally a socially liberal party. It's also a more liberal populist party on economics. And Hillary Clinton reflects that.”
“Right out of college, and we got a lot of them finished. I wrote a couple, co-authored a couple. One was Reagan's ruling class, which profiled the top 100 people in the Reagan administration. And when I finished that, that almost killed me. It was a big project at 22.”
“The Corvair. Yeah, unsafe at any speed, wrote the book, and then extended that to really create the idea of kind of an outside check on all the regulatory agencies, the idea that it should not only be the regulated industries that are trying to influence all the agencies that were created in the 70s, the EPA and the Occupational Safety an…”
“As you go inland. And that alignment kind of fascinated me, you know. And I think that by then I could kind of see in prototype where we were headed or maybe I didn't see it fully then, but it kind of struck me as something important. And I kind of stuck with it ever since.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 88 - Ron Brownstein
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