Today’s guest is Ryan Grim, author of the new book “The Squad – AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution”.
Ryan Grim is the Intercept’s Washington bureau chief and cohost of the show Counter Points. He was previously the DC bureau chief for HuffPost, where we led a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. Grim has been a staff reporter for Politico and the Washington City Paper as well as a contributor to MSNBC and The Young Turks. He’s the author of the books We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and The Rise of a Movement, and This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. He is the host of the podcast Deconstructed and lives in Washington, DC.
In the book, Ryan recounts the rise of progressive forces in the Democratic Party since the 2016 Sanders campaign and how they have helped reveal tension points within the left, including on identity vs class, establishment vs insurgent and grassroots vs big money politics. We talk about all those themes and more.
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Book:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250869081/thesquad
Twitter:
@ryangrim
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