CPF Fellows Roundtable Series: The Progressive Future

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the second installment of the CPF Fellows Roundtable Series of 2021, Spring 2021 CPF Fellow Shaniqua McClendon is joined by former Fellows Barbara Boxer (Fall 2020) and Dan Schwerin (Fall 2018) to discuss current progressive policies and debates and the future of progressivism in the U.S. This discussion was moderated by CPF Fellows Manager, Harry Burke.

Featuring:

Barbara Boxer: Former U.S. Senator (D-CA) and CPF Fall 2020 Fellow

Shaniqua McClendon: Political Director, Crooked Media and CPF Spring 2021 Fellow

Dan Schwerin: Director of Speechwriting, Hillary Clinton and CPF Fall 2018 Fellow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.1	Hello, and welcome to our second installment of our three-part CPF Fellows Roundtable series.
0:36.7	My name is Harry Burke. I'm the
0:38.5	fellow's manager here at CPF, and I'll be your moderator today. Today's discussion is being
0:43.9	broadcast through Facebook Live, and will be an episode on our podcast, The Bulley Pulpit,
0:49.1	which can be found wherever you get your podcasts. Today's discussion will center around the
0:53.7	future of progressive politics and policy.
0:56.2	From Senator Bernie Sanders pushing the Democratic Party towards Medicare for All to
1:00.4	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez championing the Green New Deal,
1:03.6	progressive ideas have gained more traction in recent years.
1:07.1	And now that Joe Biden is president, we're going to look at what exactly this means for progressive
1:12.1	policies now that they might have a real chance to materialize. So I'm joined today by current
1:17.0	and former fellows here at the Center for the Political Future. Shnequo McClendon is the political
1:22.5	director at Crooked Media and before that worked on Capitol Hill serving as policy advisor to Senator Kay Hagan
1:29.3	and legislative director to Congresswoman Alma Adams and she's currently a fellow here this
1:34.2	semester at CPF. Barbara Boxer is the former United States Senator from California who served
1:39.8	in the Senate from 1992 to 2017 for that serving 10 years in the House of Representatives
1:45.2	and was a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors.
1:48.7	She was a fellow during the fall 2020 semester.
1:52.3	And Dan Schwerin is the co-founder of Evergreen Strategy Group, a strategic messaging and speechwriting firm.
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