The Last Institutionalists—The Weekly
Mike Madrid (Author of The Latino Century) joins Host Ron Steslow to dive into how populism is consuming both parties and the institutions meant to contain them, from a socialist sweep in New York to a building debt-and-oil crisis.
They begin with New York's primaries, where DSA-aligned candidates won and Zohran Mamdani emerged as a kingmaker—signaling the Democratic party’s “Tea Party moment.”
From there, they ask whether the party is radicalizing or whether its establishment wing is the last refuge of institutional conservatism
Then they trace an oil crisis to a draining Strategic Petroleum…
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