#506 | Rep. Ro Khanna: How to Make America a Manufacturing Superpower Again - The Realignment Pod

Rep. Ro Khanna, Congressman for California's 17th District and author of Progressive Capitalism: How to Make Tech Work for All of Us, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the country, how to make America a manufacturing superpower again, what populists got wrong during the Trump-Biden era, why the Biden economic approach didn't resonate with voters, and the need to broaden the reindustrialization conversation away from semiconductors and clean energy.

0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - Current American story
4:23 - American dynamism
7:47 - Priorities for the Left
10:23 - Labor
13:18 - Relationship of Silicon Valley & the Left
16:29 - Manufacturing narrative
25:15 - Populist right
28:22 - Ro’s background
32:52 - Ro’s media tour
35:55 - Ro’s work

[HerodotusVon]

Really awesome interview! I love the way Ro blends the American legacy with progressivism, and his focus on a much more practical and pragmatic analysis of the necessary solution to some of our past mistakes. I definitely hope Ro runs for president one day, he presents a version of progressivism grounded in American patriotism, economic revitalization, and social liberalism that has at least a real shot at rebuilding the Obama coalition

[philipmurray]

Imo, Ro Khanna is the most authentic politician in America other than Bernie Sanders. Remarkable how he seems to be able to relate to virtually every sector of the political spectrum.

[Stoned_apeTheory]

It's clear Ro doesn't play games. Just because we call it AI, doesn't mean they use LLM's... at least not yet. I've always said the "The games market is capitalism when nobody's looking."

[historyrepeat]

Great conversation, I haven’t heard his foreign policy views yet but man I would vote for Ro Khanna for President. He seems series for success for the country, in a non ironic way. Very good and rational takes

[sankalp]

This guy can't even keep manufacturing in his own state. 😂