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Episode 621 - The Carceral Left Rises (w/ Alec Karakatsanis)

Published
November 5, 2026
Length
1:11:13

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Show notes

Copaganda author and Founder & Executive Director of The Civil Rights Corp returns to Bad Faith for a gloves off dragging of the carceral left. From authors at Jacobin Magazine to the segments of the DSA, a large number of leftists have been using electoralism to justify abandoning critiques of the carceral surveillance state -- even as fascism is on the rise. This episode is particularly important in the wake of the Blue Tsunami, and cop city maven Keisha Lance Bottom's victory in Georgia. The electoral left is celebrating its power even as its vanguard members, AOC and Zohran Mamdani, have endorsed Jeffries, a Zionist corporatist who opposes Medicare for All, to set the agenda for the House. Now is the time for litmus tests and political pressure. Has Mamdani already failed his first challenge by bear hugging a Zionist billionaire? Read Alec's viral piece, Why is Everyone Lying, here: https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-everyone-lying Find Bad Faith on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts. Or subscribe to our RSS feed. Follow Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). .Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands). Produced by (@armandaviram)