Krystal Ball: Unabashed Left Populism

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Joshua Citarella

102K subscribers | 150,828 views  2 Sept 2025  Doomscroll Podcast

My guest is Krystal Ball, a political commentator and a co-host of @breakingpoints.

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We discuss the seismic shift of American politics and our hard breaks to the right and left. We explore Zohran Mamdani's historic win in NYC and the ways in which the internet become real life. How do online audiences correlate to real world political coalitions?

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0:00 Intro

1:02 Left vs right populism

6:27 Online vs offline politics

12:49 Centrism vs political fragmentation

19:24 Counter-culture & individualism

23:14 Post-neoliberalism?

28:12 MAHA vs seed oils

33:36 Political journey

38:21 Gen Z conservatism

40:44 Democratic vs Republican base

46:35 GOP & the working class

50:08 Progressivism vs young men

58:56 Legacy vs alt-media

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