Is This San Francisco’s Zohran Mamdani? (w/ Saikat Chakrabarti)
Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founder of Justice Democrats and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his 2026 congressional campaign to unseat Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party’s failure to respond to genocide in Gaza, and how decades of complacent leadership have left the party morally bankrupt and politically adrift.
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Show Notes
Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founder of Justice Democrats and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his 2026 congressional campaign to unseat Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party’s failure to respond to genocide in Gaza, and how decades of complacent leadership have left the party morally bankrupt and politically adrift.
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0:00–5:30 Gaza
5:30–19:27 The Democratic Party
19:27–21:41 Nancy Pelosi
24:00–29:00 Zohran Mamdani
29:00–36:14 Saikat's Policy Agenda
36:14–42:27 Campaigning in a Hopeless Moment
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