Faiz Shakir

And, you know, it's a class.

Right.

Maybe I'd quibble with drop the culture because the thing that I get concerned about on this front is you cannot go before the American public and lie and deceive them about what you might honestly believe.

What you're trying to argue in my mind over is what is the primacy of the things that I most care about from my end?

We litigated this over Kamala and other people is that when you don't have a primacy of an economic justice class based argument that people believe and trust and say, oh, that's what animates you when you don't have that.

What becomes subsumed by you is the sense that you probably care a lot more about these other cultural issues in which there's far more differences of opinions among the American public.

And we tend to think maybe that's what animates you and why you want to get into government is you want DEI and various government agencies.

You can't fault a lot of people for seeming like they're trying to hunt for what is it that drives you.

And I don't want people to feel like, oh, I have to run away from culture.

I don't think that's the case.

They just want to know that will you give allowance for disagreement on the cultural issues where there might be and say, hey, this is what I believe.

I appreciate you might have a different point of view, but here's what I believe.

But together, you and I are on the same page on these economic justice fights on wealth and income inequality that are the first order priorities of today.

In my view, we have some really great candidates.

So first of all, while acknowledging that you've mentioned some that are kind of maybe problematic or challenging for, you know, do you advance a Democratic candidate?

You survey the field.

Is there a strong candidate or not?

You have to make prioritizations.

The question we were saying, who is a priority for you?

Thankfully, the Democrats do have very strong priorities.