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Podcast: Can we regain the ability to come back together after elections?

Podcast: Can we regain the ability to come back together after elections?

“Everything has changed,” says CNN political contributor and Center for Politics scholar Paul Begala about campaigns and elections since he was the senior strategist for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign.

“Partisanship is now part of our identity and social media has really put jet fuel behind all the fissures in our society. Elections have always been about dividing. We’re losing the ability to come back together afterward.”


Begala joins ‘Politics is Everything’ to discuss the changing nature of political campaigns, the 2022 elections, political organizing, Texas politics, the Democratic Party and more.

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Zohran Mamdani’s rise from nowhere to City Hall

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates as he takes the stage at his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Nov. 4, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

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Zohran Mamdani’s rise from nowhere to City Hall

One of the wildest and most dramatic New York City mayoral elections in modern history finished with the flare of a presidential…and with the national attention to match.

“Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us,” said a defiant and triumphant Zohran Mamdani in a shot across the bow to his shadow opponent throughout this campaign.

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America, you're better than this
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America, you're better than this

America is crying out for new leadership. We are stuck in a political swamp of hate and being hated. We can’t continue like this – we must make rational decisions to complex problems, and many of them need to be made quickly. It is simply not possible within the system that Congress has created. We need fresh ideas, fresh minds, and a fresh American spirit.

These are dangerous times for American self-government. We’ve heard that warning before—but the threat is here, right now, within the hearts and minds of our elected leaders. The institutions meant to represent us have become paralyzed or simply reneged on their duties. Partisanship has hardened into identity. Politics has turned into tribal combat instead of public service.

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Can socialism ever be more than just a fad in America?

Politicians, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), right, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, second from right,, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, middle, and New York State Attorney General Letitia James, second from left, march during the NYC Labor Day Parade on Sept. 6, 2025, in New York City.

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Can socialism ever be more than just a fad in America?

Here we go again.

Socialism is making a comeback, according to friend and foe alike. A new NBC poll now suggests that a majority of registered voters don’t like capitalism.

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