What's a Bernie person supposed to do now?: A pre-election special with Brooke Adams and Tobita Chow
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Bonus pre-election episode!
Two weeks ahead of the last judgment, Andy talks with two organizers about the \\u201cexistential battle\\u201d over the soul of the Democratic Party. Brooke Adams, a second-generation Taiwanese Seattleite, worked for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign in Iowa, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania before joining People\\u2019s Action this summer. Tobita Chow, a Chinese-Japanese-Canadian-American (not making this up, we swear) Chicagoan, is director of \\u201cJustice is Global,\\u201d part of the People\\u2019s Action network.
0:00 -- Brooke and Toby discuss their respective experiences organizing while Covid hit the US in March, then we speculate why Sanders was so successful among Asian and Latino groups. Andy has dark fantasies of seeing Trump win again and discrediting the Democratic leadership, while Brooke and Toby think more productively about how progressives might shape a (potential!) Biden-Harris presidency. A WWII analogy.
37:20 -- Toby expounds on moving politics in a more internationalist direction, i.e., don\\u2019t do a trade war with China. Also, how Toby and others pushed back on Biden\\u2019s bad China ad this spring.
59:20 -- We look ahead to the election. If (!) Biden-Harris win, how will progressives and centrists square off over the future of the party? Over climate? Covid relief? Electoral strategy?
More links and plugs
* Brooke and Toby talked \\u201cdeep canvassing\\u201d strategies. Learn more here and here
* More from Brooke: People\\u2019s Action will hold a deep canvassing event on October 27, featuring appearances from AOC, Bernie, IL state senator Robert Peters, and artist/activist Vic Mensa. If interested, click here!
* Justice is Global\\u2019s deep canvassing experiment talking to voters about China
* Toby and friend-of-show Jake Werner\\u2019s nerdy memo on the US-China trade war
* Hear Toby and Jake and other great speakers at this Critical China Studies event on October 28, 7-8:30 ET: \\u201cAnti-China politics in the US election\\u201d (direct link to registration here)
* Tammy has a new feature out on the crucial Montana senate race (and she tells us that anti-China politics are alive and well there). Will labor unions and Native Americans make the difference for the state and, by extension, the body politic? Check it out in The New Yorker.
* Andy has a new academic/public piece riffing off the \\u201cChina virus\\u201d stuff in the springtime and tracing Covid\\u2019s spread from China to the rest of the world. Some talk about \\u201cjust-in-time\\u201d / \\u201clean production\\u201d models, from 1960s Japan to China to the US, from the auto industry (think that \\u201cAmerican Factory\\u201d documentary) to grocery stores and hospitals. Here on Feral Atlas, a new digital humanities project on human-nature-infrastructure relationships. Anthropocene. Synergy.
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