Greg Casar
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And the agenda the Progressive Caucus is laying out today is we're anti-Trump, but we're also anti-corporation screw you over, anti-rich folks that have made more and more money by jacking up your prices.
So it's the kind of agenda that can lower utility bills, lower your housing costs, lower your grocery bills, and say, let's stop cozying up to these special interests.
as a party and instead start focusing on those voters that are disappointed in Donald Trump, whether they're Republican or Democratic.
Well, Donald Trump went out there and painted immigrants, painted high school coaches and LGBT people as the villains in the story.
But Democrats didn't have a villain to our story, right?
If you think about it, even though he did some good stuff, Joe Biden famously told a group of wealthy donors, nothing will fundamentally change.
And that's a problem.
We've got to be out there and say, it's not...
an undocumented mom that is jacking up your housing bill.
It is corporate Wall Street landlords, and we're going to go after them.
It is not LGBT youth that are jacking up your utility bill.
It is for profit monopolies that are doing that.
And so with this new agenda of how we're going to lower the cost of living across ten parts of your life,
We are also saying to those corporate interests that Democrats have kind of played footsie with at the institutional level, you know what?
I welcome your hatred because if you are jacking up on costs, we're going to go after you.
And I think that is what's going to bring some of those voters back to us.
We can't just be the anti-Trump party.
We've got to also be the anti-billionaire party.
You know, we've let since the Reagan era, the Republicans say that we're all about just spending money.
But the fact is, it's folks like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who are taking your money.