Saikat Chakrabarti

We're knocking doors all over the city.

If you don't live in the district, you can always phone bank.

But I just want to say, like, I know that times seem really dark right now and everything is kind of in a deer, but

There is this huge movement happening.

I've been working in this for 10 years.

I've worked on a ton of insurgent campaigns from Bernie to AOC to a bunch of the squad campaigns back in 2018.

I have never seen an appetite for change like what I'm seeing today.

I believe we can have a movement that completes

completely sweeps in and changes the entire course of the Democratic Party and the entire course of this nation.

In fact, that's the only way we get out of this.

That's the only way to actually defeat authoritarianism is if we can prove that democracy can work to improve people's lives.

And that's what we're going to do.

So, Kat? Well, I actually agree with a lot of the goal of abundance. And I think everyone here agrees that America is really stuck. And the specific reasons why we're stuck, I think, might be where there's some disagreement or this broader than a thing than just process.

So, Kat? Well, I actually agree with a lot of the goal of abundance. And I think everyone here agrees that America is really stuck. And the specific reasons why we're stuck, I think, might be where there's some disagreement or this broader than a thing than just process.

But the thing I really want to add to the discussion and the question we've been studying at New Consensus has been, how do countries get unstuck? Because if you look at the history of the 20th century,

But the thing I really want to add to the discussion and the question we've been studying at New Consensus has been, how do countries get unstuck? Because if you look at the history of the 20th century,

Every modern developed nation, most of them liberal democracies, they went through these phases of rapidly transforming their economies and creating absurd levels of prosperity for pretty much everyone in their society. And, you know, they often did it after these periods of being really stuck.

Every modern developed nation, most of them liberal democracies, they went through these phases of rapidly transforming their economies and creating absurd levels of prosperity for pretty much everyone in their society. And, you know, they often did it after these periods of being really stuck.

America and the mobilization for World War II, we did after years of stagnation and the Great Depression. And what we've sort of seen is countries seem to do it by pitching the sort of sweeping transformation of the whole economy and executing at breakneck speed, they flip into this whole other mode of operating that I think is really different than how we operate today in America.

America and the mobilization for World War II, we did after years of stagnation and the Great Depression. And what we've sort of seen is countries seem to do it by pitching the sort of sweeping transformation of the whole economy and executing at breakneck speed, they flip into this whole other mode of operating that I think is really different than how we operate today in America.