Bad Faith

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] to instantly unlock this episode [https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-489-hope-133582857] and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] Formerly an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College, Maura Finkelstein is thought to be the first tenured professor to be fired for pro-Palestine speech in the US [https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-489-hope-133582857]. She joins Bad Faith to talk to Briahna Joy Gray about the state of academic freedom, predictions for college campus protests come fall (including in NY, where Zohran Mamdani may soon be mayor), the role of Hillel & other institutional pro-Zionist actors in influencing campus speech, and the struggle to keep the faith as Israel continues to be able to execute its genocide with impunity [https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-489-hope-133582857]. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast] for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) [https://twitter.com/badfaithpod] and Instagram (@badfaithpod) [https://instagram.com/badfaithpod].

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] In 2021, DSA candidate India Walton successfully won the Buffalo, NY primary over establishment incumbent mayor Byron Brown. She would have been the first socialist mayor of a large city since Frank Zeidler left office as mayor of Milwaukee in 1960. But she never became mayor. Brown sued to get on the ballot, failed, but then launched a successful write in campaign. Though she was backed by WFP and had secured endorsements from Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and AOC, Governor Hochul declined to endorse Walton, Echoing the current Zohran Mamdani moment. Now, Walton returns to Bad Faith to give her unique perspective on what it's like to win a Democratic Party primary, only to be beaten by the Democratic Party establishment, to offer advice to Zohran Mamdani, who once campaigned for Walton in Buffalo, and to unpack her feelings on the viability of using the Democratic Party as a vehicle for real change. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast] for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) [https://twitter.com/badfaithpod] and Instagram (@badfaithpod) [https://instagram.com/badfaithpod].

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] to instantly unlock this episode [https://www.patreon.com/posts/132847499] and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] Bernie 2020 speechwriter and founder of The Lever David Sirota returns to Bad Faith to confront a quickly emerging consensus among centrist politicos: "we were right all along." Now that the energy is behind a charming Socialist mayoral candidate, the Pod Save bros, Abundance Libs, & MSNBC "progressives" [https://www.patreon.com/posts/132847499] are all rushing to offer explanations for why Zohran Mamdani won that downplay his substantive politics and elide the fact that, for years, they have supported candidates who are the antithesis of Zohran, all while claiming that a move to the center is the only way to win. Sirota, who has long been an advocate for more adversarial politics, pushes back against efforts by the center-left to co-opt Zohran's win, and breaks down how it happened with Briahna Joy Gray [https://www.patreon.com/posts/132847499]. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast] for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) [https://twitter.com/badfaithpod] and Instagram (@badfaithpod) [https://instagram.com/badfaithpod].

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast [http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast] Axios National Political Correspondent & co-author of Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again with Jake Tapper Alex Thompson joins Bad Faith to discuss the backlash around his book [https://www.patreon.com/posts/132343731] detailing the Biden administration's coverup of the President's declining health and cognitive ability. Alex takes hard questions about Tapper's complicity in the coverup, why he extended anonymity to various sources, and why he chose not to focus on the media's role in facilitating the White House's deceit [https://www.patreon.com/posts/132343731]. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast] for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) [https://twitter.com/badfaithpod] and Instagram (@badfaithpod) [https://instagram.com/badfaithpod].

The first victim of Andrew Cuomo's serial harassment to come forward, former aide to the Governor Lindsey Boylan,  takes a break from canvassing to join Bad Faith to remind the audience why no one should rank Cuomo. She explains why the Democratic Party has a crisis of credibility as a consequence of selectively weaponizing the #metoo movement for political ends, and Briahna shares her own tale of workplace harassment. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast] for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) [https://twitter.com/badfaithpod] and Instagram (@badfaithpod) [https://instagram.com/badfaithpod]. Produced by Armand Aviram [https://instagram.com/armandaviram]. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands [https://twitter.com/nickfromislands]).