The Left Needs to Reclaim Its Optimism | Interesting Times With Ross Douthat @InterestingTimesNYT

Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Can a more patriotic leftism help the Democrat Party rebrand? Bhaskar Sunkara, author of “The Socialist Manifesto,” talks on “Interesting Times” about how liberals have damaged the Democratic party’s brand by embracing a pessimistic narrative of American history.

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