Ken Casey
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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take that data and he's gonna sell it to the highest bidder. I mean, this is what our country has become. You know, this billionaire cabinet is worth $460 billion. Not the top 1%, by the way, it's the top 100th of 1% has now bought our federal government and they could give a damn about actually helping working people in this country. And clearly the last three weeks have proven that.
Well, again, I mean, look, he said he was going to bring down the cost of goods on day one. He hasn't done that. In fact, cost of eggs have increased dramatically. He's done nothing at all in the first three weeks, either him or his co-president, Elon Musk, to actually bring down the cost of goods in this country and to help everyday Americans who are working their asses off to get ahead in life.
You know, he made a lot of promises. At this point, he hasn't delivered on any one of them. He seems to be focused on anything but helping the American people at this point, only trying to help his billionaire friends make as much money as they can. And as you said, and you heard from those clips, inflict as much pain on the American people as possible.
only so they can make off with as much money as they can at the expense of all of us. That's what this is really about. And I've said for the last few weeks here, you know, whose side are we really on? Whose side is Donald Trump on, right? I know which side he's on. He's on the side of these modern day robber barons who are essentially trying to pilfer the U.S.
government, make as much money as they can and do nothing, absolutely nothing to make a difference in my life or your life.
Well, as I said just a couple days ago, right after I was elected, they asked me, what's your message for Donald Trump? And my message is we're coming. We're taking the gloves off. We're going to throw a punch and we're going to land a punch. That's what I'm bringing to this. At the end of the day, we need everyone to stand up.
Right now, when the stakes are so high for the American people, if people around this country don't see us standing up and fighting back, fighting back and pushing back hard, how in the hell are they gonna believe that when they put us back in power that we're gonna fight for their lives then, right?
And so it's incumbent upon us right now at this moment to stand up to the excesses and extremes of this administration that are not only shattering lives of people throughout this country, but they're destroying communities. So look, we have to resist, But we can do both at the same time.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, which is we can also define ourselves while we're also resisting Donald Trump. And that was one of the lessons of the last election, frankly, in my opinion, is we didn't do a good enough job of giving people in this country a sense of who we are as Democrats, what we're fighting for and why. So we've got to do both.
But let me tell you right now, what we've seen these last few weeks should incense all Americans. And it's incumbent upon Democrats to get themselves off the mat, dust themselves off, and get themselves in the fight. This is the fight of our life right now. And people across the country are watching. They're watching us closely. They want to see us fight.
In 2016, someone said to me, the Republicans are shameless, but the Democrats are spineless. It's time that the Democratic Party grows a spine and starts throwing a punch.
Well, look, I think it has to be fiercely focused on a working class agenda, giving people a sense that we recognize that they can't afford their groceries, right? And we're going to help bring down costs as Democrats.
We're going to make sure that working class people can not just get by, but can get ahead, can actually retire with dignity, can actually save a few more pennies to maybe afford a vacation, right? have access to good quality education, and of course, access to health care, right?
You can go down the list of all the things that people struggle with on a daily basis, those kitchen table issues that so many Americans are feeling like the U.S. government and politicians don't give a damn about anymore. And so that's what we have to be fiercely focused on.
I will tell you this, that, you know, there was research that came out last spring that showed that for the first time ever, the two perceptions of the two political parties has switched. The majority of Americans now believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and the Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy and the elites.
That is a damning indictment on our party. That's not who we are at all. So we've got to get back to basics. We've got to show people who are working so hard, who still believe in the American dream, that if they work hard, they can climb the economic ladder and achieve success, that it's still possible. And And that has to be our message.
We have to focus on those kitchen table issues, those struggles, everyday struggles with child care costs, with rising home costs, with not being able to afford groceries or gas. These are all things that create economic anxiety, and that's where the Democratic Party has to be focused.
Well, I just want to reflect on what you said about the ABC, always be campaigning, right? That's part of what I campaigned on for this position, which is we need a permanent campaign right now. That's not just showing up four months before an election and starting a conversation with a voter, right? But doing exactly what you're talking about, showing up in the union halls, right?
Showing up at the shift changes, showing up in community meetings. well before an election and building a durable relationship with the voter around their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations, and not just asking them to vote for our party or our candidate. That also means having a communications infrastructure that is always campaigning all the time. Unfortunately, we don't live in
uh this conventional wisdom of people just paying attention in the last five months of an election unfortunately we live in a perpetual campaign which means our party needs to be always campaigning which is why i am going to stand up a permanent campaign at the dnc we're going to get out there talk to voters and most importantly we're going to get back to organizing and building relationships with voters around shared values and about their hopes and dreams
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