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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