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Having a great conversation, sort of a deep dive into the political psyche and development of a progressive wing within the Democratic Party outlined in the book,

The Rebels by Joshua Green.

So Joshua, I want to get into,

we talked about the emergence of Warren, the rise of the backbencher of Bernie Sanders, and then the new generation now has come to the table, not only in a different fashion than we typically see in Washington, but with a higher degree of demands and a willingness to use the outside infrastructure,

social media, etc, to press their points. then that was never more noted than in the person of Alexandria

Acasio Cortez the Congress woman from New York.

Tell us a little bit about that story

and the emergence of her role in this new American politics.

Yeah, I mean, to me, the fascinating thing

or the, like the most historically noteworthy thing about

AOC is that she represents a kind of generational passing of the torch right we've talked

about this emergence of left-wing populism after the crisis, but it's two kind of chief avatars were Warren and Bernie who were much, much older.

A Kaseo Cortez is so interesting because she was really brought into national politics by Bernie Sanders.

She was a Bernie Sanders campaign staffer, volunteer, got very interested in organizing that way.

That's what prompted her to run for office.

It helped that she also turned out

to be, I think, a generationally talented politician

and communicator.

But she sort of burst onto the scene by defeating Joe Crowley the New York

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