I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.
People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!
The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.
Bernie is great, but we've got to keep this political revolution going.
My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.
I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.
People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message.
Similar to how 'Abolish ICE' rang the bell on this huge crisis on immigration, unifying around not taking corporate-PAC money gets everybody to pay attention to big money in politics.
Running on corporate-PAC money is a huge liability.
Having presidential candidates say they are supportive of the concept of doing something like the Green New Deal is amazing, but it's not sufficient.
We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction.
The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that.
I think Trump uses social media as a way to get to people's lowest common denominator. He uses it to incite fear. He talks about simplistic ideas.
