{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Forecast","title":"Matt's Forecast | May 6, 2025","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/42ede59d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3968,"description":"🎙 Season Two Premiere: “What Did You Learn From Losing?” with Matthew Rodriguez“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” – B. FranklinIn this bold launch to Season Two of The Forecast, Keegan Goudiss welcomes a longtime comrade in campaigns and conscience, Matt Rodriguez, founder of Rodriguez Strategies and one of the Democratic Party’s most seasoned strategists. What follows is no exercise in idle gossip, but a hard-eyed accounting of the state of our democracy under Trump 2.0—and the soul-searching (or lack thereof) within the Democratic Party.They revisit lessons from the Iowa cornfields of 2002 to today’s global populist winds, asking: Have Democrats truly learned from defeat? Is anyone in the party ready to speak plainly to working people? Or is our coalition more sclerotic than spirited? Matt lays down a theory of politics that cuts deeper than the latest poll, while Keegan probes how Democrats might rescue economic messaging from elite abstraction—and reclaim voters beyond the latte belt.Along the way: reflections on Dick Gephardt, the paradox of progress in blue states, the cost of aging leadership, and the ever-shifting sands of 2028. Also featuring: Costco as Democratic agora, Trump’s odd FDR cosplay, and why the next Dean Scream might just be overdue.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C481uCR-bDiAi6lrVMeaRVPTH3jovqus7vPV_itZswk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMzlk/NmNiOTkxN2E5MDll/MWQyY2MwYjExNDlj/OWYzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}