![]() ![]() ![]() RG: Yeah, it kind of fits in a place where there isn’t much media, that wants to hear the message. But clearly, there’s a listener appetite for it. And it’s not an easy podcast to promote, because there’s some very powerful people and corporate-media hostility to it. RG: One of the most listened to podcasts right now on the interwebs.ĭS: On the worldwide web. RG: So congratulations on the podcast - and some good news, it seems like it’s doing well. He put that on pause to be a speechwriter for the 2020 Sanders presidential campaign, and is now editor of the news outlet he founded called The Daily Poster.ĭavid Sirota: Thank you. It’s called the meltdown and I highly recommend giving it a listen - but only after you’ve caught up on the back catalogue of Deconstructed, of course.ĭavid Sirota was an aide to then-Congressman Bernie Sanders back in the 1990s before launching a career as an investigative journalist. And it has been shaped in significant part by the Democratic response to that financial crisis once the party took power.Ī new podcast by reporter David Sirota in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney takes a close look at the decisions made in those pivotal years, the ways in which the consequences linger and what we can learn from it. It was an exclamation point at the end of a decades-long era of deregulation and neoliberalism.Ī new era is still struggling to be born from the ashes of that old one. Ryan Grim: In 2008, Democrats swept into Washington winning the House, the Senate, and the White House on the back of anger at Republicans over the financial crisis that was threatening to bring down the global economy. If President Joe Biden wants his Build Back Better agenda to have a chance of success, argues journalist and political commentator David Sirota in his new podcast, “Meltdown,” he’ll have to take the lessons of the last 12 years seriously. The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis has defined national politics ever since. ![]()
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