Astead Herndon

I guess I want to ask that question more specifically.

Were Democrats or specifically progressives over the last election cycle too deferential to sloganeering, too deferential to certain interests or public groups that didn't want them to be as explicit or maybe saying where there was a disconnect between progressive class and the working class?

Like, why wasn't that said at the time?

Like, couldn't you have said, I don't like the slogan?

Congressman Kesar, thank you so much for joining us.

I really appreciate your time.

Thanks so much.

Next up, we're headed to Queens, home of one of the most progressive districts in the country.

And we're going to go to the streets to ask people directly, what do you actually want from progressives?

So after talking to Congressman Kesar, I decided to come to Astoria, one of the biggest neighborhoods in Queens and part of New York's seventh congressional district, which is statistically one of the most progressive areas in the country.

It's actually so progressive, in fact, it got nicknamed the commie corridor.

So we're going to talk to some voters here and see what progressive means to them.

Let's go.

When you think of the word progressive, what does that mean to you?

More modern.

New ideas.

New ideas, yeah.

Do you have any issue that comes up as the top of the list?

If someone said, I'm a progressive, is there something you expect of them?

Equality and affordability would be top of the list.