Krystal Ball: Unabashed Left Populism | Doomscroll

get out of town. You really think he's going to fight the deep state that he's anti-establishment? No. He's pulling out the chair for Netanyahu.

Why don't these Democratic consultants get it? Like, they also are sort of paid not to get it because all the answers are there in Zoron's run. He has significant broad-based and workingclass support. The exact sort of people that the Democratic Party has been bleeding and bleeding and bleeding.

>> We've just mistaken a lot of what is today left politics. That's actually libertarian philosophy and libertarian policy. >> Watching it live streamed every day and seeing the world do nothing to stop it has been eye opening. >> Welcome to Doomscroll.

I'm your host Joshua Cinderella. My guest is Crystal Ball, a political commentator and a co-host of Breaking Points. I am in the short term very seriously committed to social democracy. And I think what that practically means is having an overwhelmingly large broad coalition.

It's an electoral victory. Anything else is kind of a >> lar and having that majoritarian politics in electoral majority. You're going to need people who are more than just left and more than just liberal. So, one of the things that I'm very curious about and I think is the problem to solve is, as I asked you before, how many of those people in the right-wing populist camp can be won over to the left agenda?

Like those decisive margins in some cases, by some estimates, this is 20%. That's the electoral majority. >> Yeah. >> What do you think the chances are of winning those people over?

>> Well, we have to define our terms, right? So, you know, people who are hardcore MAGA, if you consider them right-wing populists, forget about it. >> It's not happening. I've tried.

>> It's not happening. Not in large numbers. >> You would know. Yeah.

>> Um, >> people who are like the, you know, the van listener who maybe are not particularly political like Trump won. >> Yeah. people who are who don't consume a lot of political media, right? They call them like lowinformation voters.

To me, that sounds sort of like derogative, but like people who are just kind of living their lives and are not >> just normal people into politics. >> Yeah. Live and breathe the news cycle. >> And there was ...