Bridget Phetasy sits down with Evan Barker, former Democratic operative and author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, to talk about what it looks like when a political party decides it doesn't need normal people anymore. Evan spent years as a fundraising specialist for progressive Democrats and watching the party be slowly hijacked by social justice activists, special interests, and the DSA until she reached a breaking point and ultimately ended up voting for Trump in 2024. She and Bridget discuss the DSA's strategy for the 2026 midterms, why the progressive wing thinks they lost because they weren't radical enough, what Mamdani's rise actually signals for 2028, how politicians spend all their time begging people for money, how motherhood radicalized them both, why the Democrats are running out moderates who never should have been lost in the first place, and what Evan's biggest regret is.
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