Faiz Shakir
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I mean, you go to that Illinois race and you have candidates running F-Trump.
literally 30 seconds after Trump.
Okay, got that.
That's pretty clear.
I think the public has an understanding that you and Donald Trump are not eye tie.
On anything else, is there any friction within American society on any economic justice issues in which you're willing to name names and take on powerful actors?
And this goes back to our AI question.
They're telling you right now, American public is telling you right now,
that this is one of their top concerns.
And how is it possible that any political actors or political parties have not gravitated to the layup that's on the table?
We could argue about the data center moratorium as the policy, but it is clear that Bernie Sanders, just by putting it on the docket, has said, I am putting something out there that it was reflecting the pain of working class people.
Does anybody want to meet me or match this bar or suggest anything?
This is why it's great talking with you about these kinds of things, because you live these very well, because you, unlike most political commentators, I think, are able to marry
policy and politics.
And I think often we get into where Democrats think so heavy, heavy, heady about policy that they let their politics suffer as a result.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are the other way around.
They know when they're going to govern, they're going to govern on behalf of crypto.
But when I politic, when I get out into the world and talk to working class people, I say things brazenly about, oh, I'm going to take on the wealthy and the powerful.
I hate this wealthy actor.
And in ways that I think they're better