Graham Platner

That's one of our biggest problems right now.

We've got lots of laws.

But then they get broken.

I mean, the Trump administration breaks the law every day.

And then a lot of people just stand around like, well, what do we do?

What's the mechanism to actually enforce this stuff?

And again, I don't think that the criticism is always correct, but the criticism is absolutely there and it's driven like the kind of narrative.

And that's why I think that the only way

to regain the trust of the American people as Democrats is to be radically different than what we've had, to really become, like, there should be no such thing as a labor Democrat.

That should just be being in the Democratic Party.

We do need to cut ties with the, I would say, the larger,

the donor world that comes from the financial system, the donor world that comes from Silicon Valley, like that wants to use AI to either put us all out of work or I guess maybe kill us all as of a couple days ago.

It's very insane.

We need to cut ties with that.

And I think we need to do it in a very clear public manner.

Until we do,

I think a lot of folks are still gonna see Democrats as beholden to the same corporate apparatus that the Republicans are.

The problem is that the Republicans have the weapon of just blaming marginalized communities, blaming immigrants.

We need to blame the oligarchy.

We need to blame the corporate power that resulted in the deregulation of the banking system.