Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

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  • SDSM Ep 108- Ron DeSanctomonious Declares

    Happy Memorial Day to all. May we all honor and remember those who have served to protect this beautiful experiment we call democracy. Thank you to our servicemen and women, and the families who keep things going in their absence. We salute YOU. 

    Ron DeSantis on the other hand is a dangerous pudding eater, who has unsurprisingly (and in poor form really) declared himself a candidate for the presidency of these United States. Hang on to your uteruses folks, because this is going to be a bumpy ride…


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    • 20 min
  • Dirty Moderate Recording Ep 105 w Richard Smith

    For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet our revered guest nationally recognized authority on the American presidency, a familiar face to viewers of C-SPAN (our nerd tv mecca) and an absolute national treasure, Historian and Author, Richard Norton Smith reveals in his incredible new book Ordinary Man, An: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford that with a proper look, Ford was underrated and full of surprises. 


    Richard was a joy to spend time with, and his knowledge and understanding of the presidency seems boundless, like if we sat for 10 more episodes, we would barely scratch the surface. His latest book is an incredible study of an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time. I couldn’t put it down, and made this interview happen based on being so very taken with this book and its fine author. 

    As I gear up to devour the rest of Richards books, you can catch up and enjoy not only this very special episode, but please read his absolutely gorgeous eulogy at President Ford’s funeral as well.  https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/funeral/smith.asp

    If only we had a Gerald Ford to choose from instead of the buffoon parade currently positioning for 2024…

    https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Man-Surprising-Historic-Presidency/dp/0062684167/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676660761&sr=1-1



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  • Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate Ep 106 Durham Bull?

    While not exactly exposing the "crime of the century" that Trump promised *eyeroll- the Durham report, not unlike it's cousin Mueller does play a role in our favorite pastime, saving democracy, but the execution doesn't look to be a shining moment for  the FBI as it’s trying to persuade Congress that it is a responsible steward of intelligence. 


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    • 20 min
  • Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate Ep 102- (Title) 42 Ways to Create Chaos at the Border

    Asylum officers, Secret Service agents and troops, oh my. 

    The end of Title 42 in a few short hours will reveal the plethora of issues not just this country, but the thousands who attempt to get here face and none of it is pretty folks. This episode shines a bright light on to the influx issue that COVID just kicked down the road. 



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    • 25 min
  • Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate Ep 101-Dancing on the Debt Ceiling

    Neither party gives a shit about the debt. Our spending spree is a bipartisan production—both parties spend like drunken sailors. Here’s a little reality check, for those (sane) Americans who still live in a non-partisan reality.


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    • 21 min
  • Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate Ep 100- ”47”

    While the 2024 presidential election is more than 18 months away, primaries begin in less than a year and let's face it, we who are plugged in know it's already begun. Trump's campaign is already smearing DeSantis's yet to be declared candidacy and Biden declared with the plea to let him finish the job. 


    Public approval of Biden’s job as president has been pretty lackluster for much of his time in the Oval Office, despite the nation’s improved economy and the COVID pandemic entering a new phase under his administration. The general intense vibe in Washington has created a plethora of interesting challenges and Joe has navigated most with his signature behind the wheel of his vintage hunter green corvette in aviators panache for the most part. But does any of that argue for us letting  him finish the job? Did we mention he is 80? 

    Check out this episode for a glimpse in to my Dirty Moderate take on the battle for 47. *Spoiler alert NEVER TRUMP


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    • 24 min
  • Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate-Ep 99 Fox ”News” is Bad News

    Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the Fox Network lied to your fucking faces.

    Instead of being responsible humans and calling for calm (the calm they were certainly texting each other about OFF camera we later learned) they lied to your fucking faces. They perpetuated a mob. They endangered lives. They spun a tale of lies and nonsense. FOR RATINGS! They didn’t even believe their own bullshit! They didn’t care about anything but the success of their pathetic No News Network. Rupert Murdoch wrote a $787 BILLION check to make it go away, and it is up to US to make sure he wrote that check in vain. Never forget the unethical, traitorous, string of pathetic, dangerous, self-serving fucking LIES they told you. It matters. They are garbage. The 2024 election cycle is already in full swing if you are paying attention, and it is up to you to do what you can as an American and as a member of the Dirty Moderate Nation to make sure all of the lies they told and will continue to tell don’t gain and traction. Vote. Volunteer. Educate your cranky old Uncle. Discuss things with your Karen of a neighbor. Donate to reputable org’s that fight like hell alongside us to save democracy. Let’s make their awful, autocratic loving bullshit agenda disappear faster than a McDonald’s filet-o-fish on Trump’s desk.

    Stay dirty, stay moderate, and stay safe.



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  • Dirty Moderate Bonus Episode 4/14/23 Classified Clusterfuck: 3 in 13

    Jack Teixeira, 21-year-old low-ranking member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard is the third asshat in 13 years to have the ability to access and leak classified material.

    He faces two criminal counts: unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material for publishing top-secret Pentagon documents on Discord.

    Oy. Who is asleep at the government wheel here folks?

    I share my thoughts below.

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    • 21 min
  • Ep 95 Dirty Moderate w Aurelian Craiutu

    Professor, political theorist, and author, Aurelian Craiutu, who has been researching the elusive virtue of moderation for over a decade sits down with Adam to discuss the complexities, richness, and virtue of our very favorite approach to politics.


    Despite being a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides, Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, politicians generally haven't been willing to be labelled 'moderates'. But if we making our way through much of the group think and kool-aid drenched messaging coming from each of the parties will reveal more moderates in this country than we may think.

    Moderation is a form of courage that requires swimming against the current and assuming important risks.  *We see you Ms. Cheney and Mr Kinzinger #fella

    Moderates do not have a fixed political truth; they prefer the risk of appearing politically schizoid to becoming fanatic believers in a single dogma. They understand that aligning themselves with the Left or with the Right is often, in the words of Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955),  “only one of the numberless ways open to man of being an imbecile: both are forms of moral hemiplegia.”

    Aurelian Craiutu (Ph.D. Princeton, 1999) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Adjunct Professor in the American Studies Program and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI, Indianapolis. Craiutu’s research interests include French political and social thought (Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Constant, Madame de Staël, Guizot, Aron), political ideologies (liberalism, conservatism), comparative political theory and democratic consolidation (mostly Central and Eastern Europe). He is the author and editor of several books on modern political thought including the marvelous and thought provoking title coming out this August Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals which you can pre order now, and while you wait, you can peruse his previous books here.  We are making our way through them ourselves! Dirty Moderate Nation Book Club anyone?  In the meantime, for all things saving democracy like find us on Substack  

















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    • 1 hr 8 min
  • Dirty Moderate-SDSM- Popping the Cherry of Criminality

    Happy Indictment Day to those of you who celebrate. 


    Popping in with my thoughts on today's historical arrest.




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    • 21 min

About Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

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Dirty Moderate showcases the people who cut through the nails-on-a-chalkboard din of the modern-day American political scene. We promote rigorous analysis and lively debate with individuals on both…