Bhaskar Sunkara

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism · 22 Dec 2022 podcast

The goal has to be to become truly a national political figure, which will require changes.

Definitely, and she has other things against her.

I'm obviously class-focused, but there's no denying, I think, that some of the hostility to her is sexism.

It's rooted in, I think, people wanting to see her fail or whatever else, but that's only some of it.

I think some of it otherwise is her struggling to relate to people who don't have a lot of her starting points as far as moral and ethical beliefs.

I think she's very far away from being able to do that.

I think that, um, even other politicians that are also polarizing within the squad in terms of what they say or their ideas, whatever else are very effective communicators like Ilhan Omar and others.

Um,

I think AOC... I mean, that's my hope, right?

My hope is that someone like AOC could.

The last year plus has not been extremely promising in my mind, in part because she's become or she's continued to position herself as a lightning rod cultural figure.

Whereas I think a national political figure needs to pick their spots and also pick their moment for changing their rhetoric and adjusting to their audience.

And I think she does it in certain environments, but that needs to be your national message when you're out there.

You need to be speaking towards the not already converted.

And I think Bernie does that.

Bernie strips his politics down to the basics.

First of all, I think Trump is kind of a unique personality in American history, so it's hard to compare anyone to Trump.

I think Trump is much more of a firebrand, anti-establishment force.

And I mean this negatively, for what it's worth, because I disagree with Trump.

But he was willing to set fire to the Republican establishment, right?

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