Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President

10/24/23 • 57 min

You could take that populism and turn it negative, which often happens... But populism could also be a wonderful thing where you're actually appealing to what the voters want instead of what the powerful want.

Cenk Uygur
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Cenk Uygur is a host of the show The Young Turks and the founder, president, and CEO of its parent company TYT. He is a Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States and the author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It.
Key Highlights

Introduction - 0:42
Cenk's Presidential Campaign - 2:49
Progressive Issues - 26:56
Populism - 40:28
Polarization - 49:17

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Introduction - 0:42
Cenk's Presidential Campaign - 2:49
Progressive Issues - 26:56
Populism - 40:28
Polarization - 49:17

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Democracy Paradox - Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President

Transcript

I did not intend to interview a presidential candidate. Cenk Uygur is someone I have known about for a long time. He is a host of the show The Young Turks and the founder, president, and CEO of its parent company TYT. You might have seen him on YouTube as a bombastic personality with larger-than-life opinions.

Recently, he wrote a book called Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It. It’s not the usual sophisticated