Gov. JB Pritzker

And, you know, I remember thinking I wonder back in 2020 if Michael Flynn.

I want to start by saying that although we have things to sort out within our party, for sure, that I also want us all to recognize that we've always had a spectrum of folks within the Democratic coalition and as part of the party.

So I just want to forgive a little people who have slightly different views on one thing or another.

I don't think there's going to be one doctrine that everybody's grabbing on to.

Having said that, I really believe that, you know, we live in a world right now where people have to make a decision about who they are.

I worked with Holocaust survivors to build a Holocaust museum.

And they would remind me over and over again about, you know, there are really like four types of people in the world.

There are collaborators.

There are bystanders, there are rescuers, and there are upstanders.

And the difference between a rescuer and upstanders, upstander is willing to stand up, speak out, and put themselves right up front in taking the blows that come from fighting against authoritarianism, fighting against what Donald Trump is about, fighting against the tide that could be dangerous to the person speaking out.

I believe that we have to be a party of upstanders.

Like there is no room anymore for being anything less.

Bystanders, no.

And I've seen too much of it.

I'm sick and tired, honestly, of the people in our party who've been quiet, hoping that if they just keep their heads down,

that maybe they won't get affected by, they can survive the next three years and not be negatively affected.

Same thing, by the way, for law firms and universities and corporations.

You know, what happened in the early 30s in Germany, just to be clear, is the elites backed

the leader of the Nazi party.

And they backed the Nazis.