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The Pod Save America media empire has never been animated by an all-encompassing ideology. At its core, this is a podcast hosted by four ascendant politicos from the Obama administration—speechwriters Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, adviser Dan Pfeiffer, and spokesperson Tommy Vietor—and as such, the programming has traditionally mirrored the impulses of the Democratic establishment. But those whims change over time, and that lands the loyalty of the show in some awkward tonal territory, with the hosts supporting causes they once, to say the least, viewed extremely skeptically. For example: As a longtime listener of the podcast, I found it downright disorienting to h

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