James Talarico

Even when it...

bothers people in my own party, which it does a lot.

I can't tell you how many emails or messages I get with people telling me to stop all the religious talk because it makes them uncomfortable.

And I get that.

And I try to be as sensitive as I can be to the religious trauma in this country.

And I understand where people are coming from when they feel that way.

But it is who I am.

I can't be anybody else.

And so I think showing up as the person you are and then

Saying something real, saying something honest about the world, that is refreshing to people in this moment.

And so I think when I look at all the videos that get all these views and all this engagement, the videos that do that the most are when I'm being myself and saying something true.

I don't know if you and I are saying different things, though, because isn't that telling the truth?

isn't when you pretend like there is a conflict.

I guess my point is if you, I've actually seen some of our videos about policy and some of our explainer videos do the best.

I think there is a hunger to understand what's happening.

But if you pretend that that policy is being created or needs to exist in the world,

without the conflict that is the context, then you're not being honest with people.

You're not shooting straight.

And you mentioned earlier, people want to be moved.

Don't we want politics that moves people?