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Beth is still on vacation, so Sarah drafted a guest co-host she's been married to for 23 years. Sarah and Nicholas run through the headlines — Iran's "low-key" chess game, the cost of absolutely everything, and the Flock cameras multiplying across the country — before digging into the state of the Democratic Party: the DSA's rise, AOC, purity tests, and why Barack Obama is somehow still the party's leader. Then, Outside of Politics, the full report on the Hollands' 3,000-mile RV trip from hell — eight states, four national parks, one brutal adenovirus, and a PSA about the rental company. ...
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But then at the same time, we literally have democratic operatives saying, we're going to do everything we can to save the party from the democratic socialists and not get these people elected. And it's like, what are we doing?
Don't we mostly agree on these things? Isn't the point that we mostly agree? This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Nicholas Holland.
You're listening to Pantsuit Politics. Beth is still out for another week on vacation and Nicholas has generously agreed to come co-host with me. Nicholas is my husband, guys, in case you didn't know.
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