It’s notoriously tough to land a political blow on Donald Trump, but California congressman Ro Khanna is one of the few Democrats who have had some success. This summer, by relentlessly agitating for the release of the Epstein files, Khanna drove a wedge between the President and some of his supporters. In July, the furor grew so clamorous that House speaker Mike Johnson sent Congress into recess early to help his party avoid some potentially damaging Epstein-related votes.

But Khanna has more to offer than point-scoring. Despite representing deep-pocketed Silicon Valley, he’s embraced an agenda of economic populism (taxing the rich, Medicare for All) while also preaching an “economic patriotism” that involves re-industrializing the hollowed-out heartland. A co-chair of Bernie Sanders’s 2

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