The Focus Group Podcast

By: The Bulwark
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  • Unfiltered, uncompromising, unexpected—The Focus Group is a look into what the average voter thinks about politics, policy, and current events. Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, has conducted hundreds of hours of focus groups all across the country. She and a series of special guests will take you behind the glass to hear what real focus group participants have to say. https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast/focus-group/
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Episodes
  • S5 Ep16: Can You Say 'Oligarchy'? (with Faiz Shakir)

    S5 Ep16: Can You Say 'Oligarchy'? (with Faiz Shakir)
    May 3 2025
    Sarah didn't think she'd be looking to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as examples of good Democratic communicators. But all of a sudden, they're some of the only people in the Democratic Party showing how to get the Trump opposition engaged. Faiz Shakir, Sanders' adviser and 2020 presidential campaign manager, joins the show to talk about Sanders' and Ocasio-Cortez's rallies around the country, why he thinks they'll advance the Democratic Party going forward, and what even moderates can learn from their approach.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S5 Ep15: Nothing is True, Everything is Possible (with Anne Applebaum)

    S5 Ep15: Nothing is True, Everything is Possible (with Anne Applebaum)
    Apr 26 2025
    Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have been marked by a lot of aspiring autocratic behavior...like deporting a legal resident without due process, targeting his political enemies, to walking right up to the line of ignoring the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, it's not a given that voters will care...or even clock that what they're seeing is bad. Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum joins Sarah to discuss how voters are seeing Trump, and how he's comparing to autocratic regimes around the world.

    show notes
    Anne on Substack

    By Anne Applebaum:
    Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
    Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
    America’s Future Is Hungary
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    52 mins
  • S5 Ep14: Trump's Luxury Beliefs (with Scott Lincicome)

    S5 Ep14: Trump's Luxury Beliefs (with Scott Lincicome)
    Apr 19 2025
    Trump has plunged the markets into chaos over the last couple of weeks with his tariffing, and un-tariffing, and possible re-tariffing. The Biden-to-Trump voters we've talked to were a mixed bag on this. Scott Lincicome, author of The Dispatch's economics newsletter Capitolism and Vice President of general economics at the Cato Institute, joins Sarah to listen to how the trade war is trickling down to voters and where it all might go from here.

    show notes
    By Scott Lincicome:
    Capitolism Newsletter

    This show is #sponsored by OneSkin. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code THEFOCUSGROUP at https://www.oneskin.co #oneskinpod
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    58 mins

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