Jane Coaston

We don't like rich assholes and we don't like being told what to do.

You know, I think you and I may have talked about this, but a challenge for Democrats and progressives has been that Democrats and progressives have been viewed as the combination of rich assholes who want to tell you what to do.

And.

I think that the further you can get away from that, the further you can get towards like, look, we want you to be able to access the best things in life for your family and the best things in life for people who care about you.

And fuck anybody who's going to get in the way of doing that.

And also...

Fuck these people who are out here trying to tell you how to live your life, trying to tell you what to do, trying to take away your right to marry because we're doing that again.

He was kind of self-aware of it.

That's the thing.

I mean, that's kind of where, you know, not to get into this, but like that kind of criticism of neoliberalism.

There are some people who took that as being like everybody's very mad about NAFTA or I don't know, something else.

But like what it actually was, was like, hey, it feels like the concerns of people who don't get to do any of this are being ignored for people who spend a lot of time going to Davos.

Which was kind of funny how Trump was supposed to be like the anti-Davos person, and then he's just like, I'm going to go to Davos and scream about Greenland.

One of the hard things about politics will always be that you are going to have more people who are of the elite, who are...

heavily invested in politics than people who are not and i wish that weren't true and i hope someday that that i think that there's a lot of work to be done to make that less true to get a a politic of the many even though it will not look the way anyone ever thinks it will i think that there's this idea that people have that like the working class would either simultaneously be like way more liberal or way more conservative than they actually are but like

They're neither.

It's kind of like a weird juxtaposition, a weird combination.

Like I understand people for whom, you know, the years between 1995, like Republican Revolution, 94, 95, and like basically through the financial crisis.

And then going to like 2016, I can understand for people that they're just like, that was just a whole lot of time where nobody listened to me.

I think it is a useful place to be.