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Mar 2025
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Episode 456 - The "Adversarial Left" Res...

Briahna Joy Gray
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Following Brie's explosive interview with former Rep. Jamaal Bowman about Force The Vote and the usefulness of The Squad, socialist former Seattle City Councilmember and founder of independent movement organization Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to offer her rebuttal to the "inside/outside" strategy for moving the country left. As part of the adversarial left, Kshama describes her version of the left response to the current political moment and debriefs Briahna on a recent Piers Morgan interview about Trump's first month in office.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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