Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

I guess today is Shrikot Truckabarti.

Shrekat came to prominence in 2018 as AOC's campaign manager,

and then chief of staff as she entered into Congress,

where he led the effort to draft and release the Green New Deal.

Since then, he's founded the new consensus think tank and serves as its president.

He's also now running for Congress in the race to

replace Representative Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. To declare up front, this isn't an episode

focused on his candidacy and any other election-related promotion, since, of course, this is a

think tank podcast. Shrikot has actually been on my goal guest list ever since I launched

the realignment back in 2019, so given our shared interests, I'd have him on the show regardless

of whether he ran for office or not. So for our purposes, he's very much appearing on the show

as president and co-founder of due consensus, an organization that grew out of his work at a brand

new Congress and his time working on the Green New Deal.

In this conversation, we talk about why the political center slash moderate crowd struggles to think big and often substitutes polls and message testing for actual goals built around an affirmative story

and review about where the country needs to go next.

Why the left struggles to embrace pragmatism, what his new consensus-slash-left-informed

story of the past 60 years of American politics is, we then dig into his mission for

America framework of government, having three different modes operation, mission mode, management

mode, and decline mode.

You won't be shocked to hear of any things that we've

been stuck in failure mode for most of the 30-year-plus of any millennial's lifetime. We then go

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