Briahna Joy Gray: Democrats Can’t Do Anything | Doomscroll

and to still have the messaging be he just can't do anything it's not his fault he just can't do anything at a certain point fine I'm convinced Democrats in power can't do anything we have a lot that we want to do on the left so then how do you get that done and we now know because two years later Republicans did the exact Force the vote strategy and were able to get a number of concessions that this strategy would have worked there are these people who have mixed politics like you can say a little bit of this thing that's been on your mind that you can't stand flight company on the left and I am grateful for never having been indoctrinated in the idea that the Democratic party was some kind of like home or team sport for me that I had to defend despite the logic of how they operated welcome to Doom scroll I'm your host Joshua citarella my guest is Brianna Joy gray a lawyer and political consultant in 2020 she served as the national press secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign she is the host of the bad faith podcast the idea that there was going to be an ability to take over the Democratic party to use traditional political means to reform the party to pull it back to the left was really undermined by what we saw and how the Bernie campaigns in 2016 and 2020 played out and I'm not someone who I think jumped prematurely to these kinds of conclusions it's part of why I sometimes become frustrated when people might want to write me off as a bad actor or someone who is I don't know part of her grift is to have a a pessimistic read of politics to the contrary I worked for the Bernie campaign in 2020 I like to say I gave that man the best years of my 30s and for what right like I was really committed to the project I'm someone who only you know left the law and entered into politics precisely because of how much I believed in the project in 2016 and because I felt compelled to start writing and begin a journalism career precisely because of the media institutions of journalists unwillingness to engage substantively and accurately with what the movement and the spirit of ...