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Hey folks,
I joined Waj from The Left Hook and while we agree on a lot, this conversation gets into the disagreements that actually matter: how Democrats build a winning coalition, whether the party is too cautious, what the left gets right and wrong, and what a genuinely transformative economic agenda could look like.
[00:01:08] We start with Kash Patel, the FBI, and one of the strangest political conversations imaginable before getting into the bigger question of who gets put in positions of power.
[00:13:23] AI and data centers take center stage. We debate regulation, corporate influence, environmental costs, and why the coming technological shift demands a much bigger political response.
[00:28:24] The gloves come off over the Democratic establishment, Abdul El-Sayed, progressive candidates, electability, and whether the party is actually making room for its left flank.
[00:42:43] We dig into new polling, economic populism, the appetite for political transformation, and why I think Democrats need something closer to a new New Deal.
[00:54:49] Waj closes out our debate by reflecting on where we agree, where we absolutely don’t, and the tension between traditional Democratic strategy and the demand for something new.
This is a real debate about power, coalition-building, AI, economic populism, progressives, the Democratic establishment, and what it actually takes to win elections. Waj pushes me. I push back. And underneath all of it is a question I think we need to wrestle with: how do we build a coalition broad enough to win while still delivering the kind of change people are demanding? If you value honest conversations like this—even when we disagree—help me keep them going.
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With urgency,
—Mike
