You Had a Lot of Questions About the Election

You Had a Lot of Questions About the Election

Ezra Klein answers listener questions about the future of the Democratic Party, the meaning of “the working class,” how blue cities should respond to their apparent electoral rebuke and more.

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.

Ezra Klein: Welcome to the first subscriber-only “Ask Me Anything” episode. We’re in the new postpaywall era. We want to make sure you’re getting more for your money.

I’m joined today by Claire Gordon, our great senior editor, to talk through a bunch of election-related questions you all have sent in.

Claire Gordon: Yeah, people are paying for this. So you’ve got to tell them how you really feel.

Klein: It’s got to be good.

Gordon: We got a ton of questions sent in about the elections. This is very much an election-focused AMA.

And to start off: Democrats have been losing the working class. Democrats are desperate to win back the working class.