Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges returns to the podcast to talk about his relationship with the Cornel West 2024 campaign, ballot access, electoral strategy, RFK Jr. & more. Also discussed are the nurses and teachers unions' endorsement of Joe Biden, the problem of business unionism, & whether RFK Jr. is accurately representing his family legacy.
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 2016 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka returns to Bad Faith to discuss RFK Jr.'s appeal and the strategic advantages of running as a Dem vs a third party candidate. Is Cornel West hamstringing himself by running outside of the Democratic Party? Is there an advantage to being included in polls during the primary process? Does the #forcethedebate movement help expose the Democratic Party in a way that wouldn't be possible if RFK Jr. & Marianne Williamson were running as third party candidates? Even so, do those candidates loose more than they gain by their association with the Democratic Party? Can you truly run a left campaign "as a Democrat"? And if the answer is no, why? Is the real issue that you can't be adversarial to the Democratic Party as a Democrat, or that no one whose tried has never opted to run in a way that's truly oppositional to the corporate duopoly? Brie also asks about the odds Cornel West will win the Green Party nomination, whether there is tension with Howie Hawkins within the party, & more.
In this deep dive with 2024 independent Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West, Briahna presses him on his decision to distance himself from the Movement for a People's Party, eliciting details about his prospective affiliation with the Green Party that other interviews haven't captured. Is there a chance he won't be the Green nominee? If not, what then? Also, Dr. West explains in detail why he thinks RFK Jr. dramatically misunderstands the plight of Palestinians and fails to apply the same logic he uses to argue against funding Ukraine to funding Israel. They talk campaign strategy, ranked choice voting, and more. A must-listen.
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Since we last talked Cop City, things have escalated. A SWAT team raided a house where activists were raising legal support and bail funds, and over 40 Cop City protestors have been charged with state domestic terrorism. All this comes after a new autopsy report confirms police were not acting in self defense when they killed 26-year-old forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán. Kamau Franklin returns to the podcast along with Micah Herskind and Mariah Parker, two other Stop Cop City activists, to give us the lay of the land and connect the criminalization of protests and the fascist funding of the police training center by national corporations to broader trends across the country.
With two candidates running against Biden in the Democratic Presidential primary, there has been extensive conversation about whether Robert Kennedy and Marianne Williamson will ultimately serve as "sheepdogs" corraling left voters back into the Democratic fold should they lose the primary. One alternative? A dirty break: running in the general election after losing the primary. But is that even possible? Briahna talks to Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access News and longtime expert on U.S. third parties, about whether a dirty break strategy could work and what it would look like. You're not going to want to miss this one.
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Cedric G. Johnson, author of After Black Lives Matter, joins Bad Faith for part two of his two hour conversation with Briahna about why the movement fell short, his beef with police abolitionists, and why a class lens is necessary to understand the roots and trajectory of the policing crisis. (Part two is where the conversation really matures into something quite useful. Let us know what you think). Listen to Part One here.
We're pushing part two of the Cedric Johnson interview to next week in favor of a timely discussion with Representative Ro Khanna about whether the debt ceiling bill represents a "win" for Democrats or a failure of elected progressives to fight. In this interview, which took place hours before last night's vote, Khanna answers whether the Democratic no votes were really performative, whether Biden's failure to raise the debt ceiling during last year's lame duck session disqualifies him from party leadership, and whether Khanna still stands by his decision to support Hakeem Jefferies as minority leader.
Prof. Cedric G. Johnson, author of After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle, joins Bad Faith to explain why the movement fell short, his beef with police abolitionists, and why a class lens is necessary to understand the roots and trajectory of the policing crisis.
Professor and iconoclast Norman Finkelstein's long-awaited book is finally out! He and Briahna discuss chapters on Ta-Nehisi Coates & Kimberlé Crenshaw in the wake of news that those authors and others have been omitted from the African American AP curriculum. Does the cancel culture critic have a defense of these figures being canceled despite his substantive agreement with them? Also, what does Norman, a staunch advocate of Palestinian rights, make of Ilhan Omar's ejection from the Foreign Affairs committee? The critic of identity politics weighs in on the choice to defend Ilhan as "a black woman." Finally, Norman gives his takes on the Bernie movement, the future of electoralism, and everyone's favorite topic -- Marianne 2024.
People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to talk about the looming debt ceiling deadline. Is it time to mint the coin? Pull the 14th Amendment card? And importantly, what exactly are Republicans (and some Democrats) trying to put on the chopping block as the "negotiate" over the budget. Also, Breunig and Brie talk Democratic primary, RFJ Jr. skepticism, & more.
