2024-07-04
1 小时 1 分钟If you saw the recent presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, you may have found yourself thinking, really?
These are the two best candidates the United States has to offer.
How did that happen?
The episode youre about to hear can help explain how that happened.
The core of this episode was first published in 2018 during Donald Trumps presidency.
This is an update, but we've also added a new voice.
Andrew, it's Steven.
How are you?
Hey, Steven, how are you, my friend?
First of all, just introduce yourself, please.
I am Andrew Yang.
I'm an all around interesting bon vivant.
Andrew Yang has been on this show before.
The first time, it was in early 2019, in an episode we called why is this man running for president?
Yang did run as a Democrat in the 2020 election, and for a time, he was everyones favorite entrepreneur.
A businessman with a taste for policy research, he offered sharp diagnoses and prescriptions for some of our countrys biggest economic and social problems.
In support there arose a substantial Yang gang, and his campaign caught fire.
For a while, he made the big democratic debate stage in 2020, but ultimately, he flamed out.
In 2021, he ran for mayor of New York City.
He lost that election too soon after he left the Democratic Party and launched what is called the Forward Party.