Andrew Sullivan
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What are you going to do?
And unless they have a clear...
statement that reassures people that we will not go back to Biden, but we're going to move forward from Trump, the Republicans will win again.
I think of Bill more as more of a centrist.
He does have democratic leanings, obviously, and he's democratically affiliated.
But I don't think of him as a left figure.
Look, I think that
It's a complicated time because at the same time, the left has a great populist opportunity right now.
And I don't think the sort of Starmer, Kamala Harris, Blair in the middle is going to work for them.
They do have to have an argument.
And I think this is going to probably become very relevant with AI, which is who is looking out for the middle classes?
Who really is?
Not the upper middle classes, the middle classes.
The 60th percentile.
And who are dealing with education costs, healthcare costs, grocery, all of it.
And there's a chance there to say, look, we do have an Epstein class.
They are distorting everything.
They do have too much power.
you have an argument that you would get from the Gilded Age, you know, against the Gilded Age.
And I think you'd make a good argument for that without it seeming as if you're just becoming a socialist, because what you're doing is trying to rescue capitalism for itself.