Zohran Mamdani and The Truth About Democratic Socialism - Kaizen Asiedu

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Kaizen Asiedu is a Harvard-educated, Emmy-winning former executive turned truth-teller, mentor, and political commentator. Follow Kaizen: X - https://x.com/thatsKAIZEN Substack - https://thatskaizen.substack.com Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - Shopify! Sign up for a £1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.co.uk/trigger/ - Superpower: Test 100+ biomarkers. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. Click https://superpower.com - Protect your wealth with The Pure Gold Company. Get your free investor guide at https://pure-gold.co/trigger Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 02:15 - Kaizen's Take On Slavery And Konstantin's Doha Debate Clip 06:36 - Identity Politics And Polarisation Of The Left And Right 13:19 - The Right Is Making The Same Mistake The Left Made With Trump 23:14 - Jewish New Yorker's Are Worried 28:59 - Immigration And The I.C.E Raids 37:45 - Wealth Inequality 49:56 - What Should Be Done To Combat The Radicalisation In America? 55:27 - Social Media And Monetisation 59:45 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He's the populist left, whereas Trump was the populist right.
0:05.0	If you continue to just demonize the populace of any color,
0:09.0	what happens is people just feel, oh, well, you don't actually care about my problems.
0:12.0	So at least this guy's talking about my problems.
0:15.0	Zoron talks about attaching richer, wider neighborhoods.
0:18.0	I think that's a product of the democratic socialist worldview.
0:21.6	It very much views things from an oppressor-oppressed lens
0:25.6	and explicitly views things in terms of racial dynamics,
0:28.6	which I think is unhealthy.
0:30.6	What I challenge people to do who are critical of Zoran is say,
0:33.6	let's talk about specific policies, assess whether they work, but the overall worldview that
0:39.9	he represents, I don't think works.
0:42.8	I have my concerns about what he opens up the Overton window to allow, like even more
0:49.5	far-left policies.
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