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Episode 553 - AOC, Zohran & The Left's Labor Pains (w/ Kshama Sawant)

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Bad Faith

Comedy, News, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

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Washington Congressional candidate & former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to give her no-holds-barred assessment of left elected officials as they navigate the Democratic Establishment, to weigh in on the Epstein files -- including Chomsky's involvement --, and to provide a clear blueprint for how the left should resist. She also weighs in on the limits of labor given business unionism capture and strategies to overcome it, while updating us on the progress of her Congressional campaign against Zionist corporatist Adam Smith.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you understand that he was never intending to do what we think he should have done

0:05.4

and anything close to what we did in Seattle, then he wouldn't be doing these things.

0:10.2

I mean, it's as simple as that.

0:11.5

It's, you know, it's Occam's razor.

0:13.1

At the end of the day, what is the simplest and the most straightforward explanation

0:16.1

that will tell you why is he doing this?

0:18.6

If he doesn't need Hopul's endorsementment then why the fuck he gets in the first place Are you having flashbacks to your last race?

0:57.7

I mean, did you feel like you kind of snuck in under the radar the way that AOC did before

1:02.2

all of the progressive started to win and avoided some of the, no?

1:06.6

No, no.

1:07.6

The only thing that you can say that was true in 2013 was that it was such a novelty.

1:14.6

Like, you know, I was the first social just 100 years, practically, like a self-declared revolutionary socialist running.

1:20.7

The Democratic Party initially underestimated us. But to be honest with you, the attacks were never absent.

1:26.8

It was only a question of how high-prof became. Like so throughout, even when we were, everybody, all the bourgeois thought we were nobody's and they didn't need to worry about us. We were still being attacked by the labor bureaucracy. They would hold rallies, for example, against wage theft, and we would be there

1:46.4

supporting it because obviously, you know, we are socialists and I was a union member myself at

1:51.6

that time. I was a delegate to the labor council. They all knew me. They supported our

1:55.6

opponent who had voted against basically when who was opposing $15 an hour at that time.

2:00.9

And they were like almost physically bar me from even standing near their press conference.

2:05.0

It was pretty bad.

2:05.8

They were always bad.

2:08.2

I think it's a, we take it as a badge of honor.

2:10.5

You know, we take it as a reflection of the bureaucrats knowing exactly who we are and why they should fear our politics.

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