Abdul El‑Sayed

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354 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed Is “Not a Burn-It-Down Kind” of Candidate · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

That's the first two years of my job. matched

Too much of a scientist, I guess. matched

I'm a capitalist who read about capitalism. matched

And when you read about capitalism, it is very clear, even to the originators who coined the idea, that the biggest risk to capitalism was not going to be government regulation as much as the corporatists want you to think it is. matched

It was always going to be monopoly. matched

And we know that hypercapitalism tends toward monopoly. matched

We also understand that that happens in part because when a corporation gets big enough, it has enough power to start rent-seeking, which is a fancy term of saying influencing government action to protect its own interests. matched

And that's the place we are right now in capitalism. matched

Like, I think small business is amazing. matched

I think it's a really efficient way to move capital into the areas where it can be really efficient to create a lot of jobs. matched

I'm just not a socialist. matched

And so I'd want capitalism to work the way it was supposed to work, not the way that the corporations tell us it's supposed to work right now. matched

He hasn't been in good shape since the 90s. matched

I think he says it because all of his base understands the risk of actually having to go up against somebody who's willing to take the fight to them. matched

And here's why he's wrong. matched

In the 90s, you asked for tens of millions of dollars from your benefactors. matched

Then you put 30-second ads on TV. matched

And then you won because you were able to get more money and spend more on TV. matched

And I think what we're showing is that if you can move your message and it is consistent and authentic to who you are, people see past the 30 second ads on TV because guess what? matched

Nobody likes the commercial part of a TV show. matched

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