James Talarico

And at the same time that I won, Greg Abbott won my district in 2018.

So there were a large chunk of voters, in fact, the voters who made the difference in the election, who voted for Greg Abbott for governor and me for state representative.

And being comfortable with that contradiction, I mean, that's the messy world of politics and human decision-making.

And if we are going to defeat Trumpism, the culture that gives rise to someone like Donald Trump, it's gonna require putting forward a new vision of what a different kind of politics would look like.

What is the antithesis of Trumpism?

What does that politics look like?

What does the country look like?

with that kind of politics.

What does it look like?

I think that people are really tired of being pitted against their neighbors.

They're tired of being told to hate their neighbors.

It's been 10 years of this Trumpian politics.

Again, sometimes on both sides of the aisle.

And I think people are ready for a politics of love, a love not just for the state of Texas or for this country, but a love for our neighbors, a radical love, especially for our neighbors who are the most different from us.

And that kind of politics I think could transform this country.

If we actually treated all of our neighbors

as bearers of the image of the divine, how would our discourse look?

How would our public policies look?

To me, that is the primary question that we should all be asking.

And I don't know, because again, this kind of politics is not what we've had.