AI backlash collides with a volatile midterm landscape

The brief

Dana Bash joins Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov to assess Democratic enthusiasm, Senate contests, and the structural barriers to a potential blue wave.

AI anxiety is becoming a bipartisan political issue as data-center expansion, regulation, liability, and technology’s economic power collide with voter concerns.

The discussion treats Mitch McConnell’s possible return as part of a larger question: should voters judge lawmakers by age, ideology, or the quality of constituent service?

Bash’s book with David Fisher traces fifteen elections that changed history, using money, media, fear, party machinery, and charisma to explain today’s political dysfunction.

Her most surprising case is Sun Yat-sen’s election in China, a brief democratic period between imperial rule and Communist Party rule with consequences that still resonate.

The episode closes on journalism’s shrinking centrist space and the tension between personal convictions and the obligation to present competing political perspectives.