Abby Phillip

A flub for AOC.

But the question is also, what happens when the president, the actual president of the United States, does very similar things on the world stage?

I can take homina, homina from Congress people and stuff.

You don't have yourself together.

That's on you.

Can't take it from the guy who says he's the leader in the free world.

Yeah, I think that is very much an accurate statement.

And in many ways, Jesse Jackson was the bridge between Reverend King and Barack Obama.

And he was someone who influenced culture, business, politics, international affairs.

And you really can't think of another Black figure who had the reach that Jesse Jackson did for the time that he did.

And he was, for decades,

One of the most well-known people, forget black figures, but one of the most well-known people in America.

Well, that power came from his ability to capture people's attention.

He was a master of the attention economy.

This is before the internet, before cable news.

He knew better than almost anyone else how to get all cameras on him at all times and to get the entire nation practically tuned into his message.

And that became his superpower for much of the last 60 years.

Those campaigns are some of the most interesting but little-known campaigns.

But when you look under the hood a little bit, and you look a little bit more deeply at what happened in the primary, and particularly Jesse Jackson's role in changing his party in those years, what you start to see is...

the prescience of those campaigns, so much of what Jesse Jackson was running on, the things that he was talking about, the type of politics, the progressive populism, so many of those things were before his time.