Unlike in 2020 & 2016, a prescriptive progressive economic
agenda hasn't been thrust into mainstream consideration this
election cycle. Rather, any talk of the economy has largely
centered around questions of inflation: whether Biden is or isn't
making it better, and whether leftists are overstating the cost of
living struggles of working people. This week, Professor of
Economics at SUNY-Cortland Steve Maher joins
Bad Faith to assert a positive
economic vision for the left, how to defeat globalization, and
whether or not right-populists have gotten anything right in these
regards -- if only rhetorically. We also debate the value of left
electoralism, whether "fraud squad" is a fair charge, and the
limits of labor militancy.