This week Faiz Shakir joins Sean O'Brien on Better Bad Ideas. Faiz is the senior advisor to Bernie Sanders and executive director of the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union.

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Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00 39 - Getting to know Faiz
00:03:52 - Why Faiz is a Democrat.
00:08:40 - Faiz's first job
00:11:30 - 911 Changed Things
00:15:10 - Lost faith in institutions
00:18:48 - The DNC Emails
00:21:20 - ACLU
00:23:00 - Bernie Sanders hires Faiz
00:27:58 - Bernie Sanders impression
00:34:34 - Have Democrats lost sight of who they are?
00:42:30 - What voters want
00:45:00 - Fix the Democrat brand
00:54:00 - President O'Brien
00:54:30 - Can we agree on good ideas?
01:00:00 - Learning from the workers
01:02:45 - DNC Election popularity context
01:06:21 - Faiz's family life
01:09:30 - School nurse advocacy
01:10:37 - More Perfect Union
01:16:45 - Podcasts replacings Mainstream media
01:22:00 - Democrats not showing up
01:29:53 - Hasan Piker
01:33:00 - How Faiz supports working people

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