Zohran Mamdani: Socialist or Sell-Out? With Butch Ware, Matt Lieb and Daniel Mate

Katie talks to former Green party vice-presidential nominee Butch Ware about his run for Governor of California, his thoughts on Gavin Newsom and Katie Porter and his critique of Zohran Mamdani for protecting Hakeem Jeffries, Zionism and "playing footsie" with fascists.

But first we talk to Bad Hasbara co-hosts Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté about former Obama speech-writer Sarah Hurwitz who has unwittingly exposed the Zionist weaponization of the Holocaust and antisemitism in a way no anti-zionist ever could. And we talk to Esteban Girón, Political Director of Tenants PAC and a longtime organizer with the Crown Heights Tenant Union about Zohran's housing about the good, the bad and the ugly in Zohran's transition team.

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Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. He is associate professor of History at UC Santa-Barbara. He was the 2024 vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party. He is running for Governor of California.

Matt Lieb is a comedian, podcaster, accidental award winning journalist, and guy from Good Mythical Morning. He hosts the podcast Bad Hasbara.

Daniel Maté is the cohost of Bad Hasbara, a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the coauthor of "The Myth Of NormalTrauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Maté. He also cowrote with Katie the Parody song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us NowThe Genocidal Remix" a duet by Biden and Bibi

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