Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And today I talk to

Rachel Cantor, who is an old friend of mine from Mississippi when I used to run charters down there.

She co-founded and ran an organization called Mississippi First, which did heroic work on a very slim

budget to turn around that state's educational trajectory

and to the point now where they're making Mississippi's been making national headlines is the

Mississippi miracle. And Rachel explains like what really was behind this Mississippi miracle,

what's truth, what's fiction, what's emphasized too much in the national debate, what's not

emphasized enough. and you will find

it really informative and probably really inspirational as well. But before we get there,

I wrote probably my longest sub-sac piece ever that I just put out this morning. It's called

The Party of Posers that is all about this interminable debate about Hassan Piker.

But I really, who's this sort of streamer, this dubbed a left-wing streamer.

I'm not sure he's actually left-wing.

And I zoom out and talk about why that debate matters and what meaning we could bring to it

and get quite candid about a lot of people who I've

worked with over the years. And so it is definitely a window into how I feel the Democratic Party

has drifted in the past few years. I think there in many ways there are parts of the party that

I think I've learned some lessons, really important lessons, and then there are moments like

the one we're in right now where I begin to wonder whether things are actually getting worse.

And so you could read that.

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