Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim On The Squad

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ryan Grim has a new book out called "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution." This week on Deconstructed, Grim's "Breaking Points" co-host Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host, interviews him about his latest book. The conversation was held at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Like we did earlier with our Naomi Klein interview, we’re running the conversation here as today’s episode. The event included a brief reading and a wide-ranging conversation that touched on the Squad’s relationship to Democratic leadership, criticism of its willingness to stand up to Democratic Party bosses, and the big-money operation launched by pro-Israel super PACS, organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to oust members of the Squad and purge the party of Democrats who agree with them. You can preorder the book here.

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0:00.0	Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.
0:15.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.0	Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK.
0:25.0	avante west coast feel good travel. I'm Ryan Grim.
0:35.0	I'm Ryan Grimm.
0:37.0	Welcome to DeConstructed.
0:38.0	My new book, The Squad, AOC in the hope of a political revolution comes out next Tuesday, December 5th,
0:45.0	and it traces the recent history of the progressive movement in America.
0:48.0	This week, the DC Bookstore Politics and Prose held an event to launch it moderated by political
0:54.0	commentator Crystal Ball my co-host over at the Breaking Points Network.
0:58.0	If you're thinking about buying the book, the favor that I have to ask of you is
1:01.5	this, please don't procrastinate, because sales this week
1:05.8	are the most important ones for the bestseller rankings.
1:08.6	And if it does well out of the gate,
1:10.5	then it does exponentially better over the long haul.
1:13.0	So a sale today is actually worth like 20 sales in a few weeks.
1:17.0	I've already gotten paid for the book, but if it does well,
1:20.0	that means I get to write another and then another.
1:23.0	So if that's an outcome you'd like, go ahead and get it soon.
1:27.0	All right, I think that's a hard enough cell for now.
1:30.0	For this episode of Deconstructed, we'll be playing the audio of the conversation I had with Crystal.
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