Impeachment, Death Threats & Neoliberal Rot W/ Kshama Sawant & Corey Robin

Kshama Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minimum wage and the Amazon Tax and supporting Black Lives Matter. Corey Robin (https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin) talks about impeachment, The Democrats, Barack Obama, "ongoing neoliberal rot," why Margaret Thatcher said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and what that means for us today. is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, a journalist, a political theorist, a writer and an author of several political books, including The Reactionary Mind.

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