Michael Bennet (Senator of Colorado)
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And the kind of stuff that we're squandering right now in terms of our leadership in the world, in terms of running an education system where the kids today are actually Their reading scores are worse today than they were 20 years ago. A health care system that is, you know, creating nothing but headwinds for the American people and for American business.
You know, we could do a hell of a lot better than that, Mark. And that's that's the world we're living in today, in part because the Democratic Party was repudiated because it could not figure out how to compete with the economic message that Trump and J.D.
The way he won is through the economic unhappiness of the American people. Look at the polling at the beginning and the end of his election, and you'll see that 70% of the American people say we need a radical change in the economy. And he was the one providing that. not the Democratic Party.
I also think, as I said earlier, that there is a place where people feel that lack of opportunity and a strong man shows up and says, you don't need the democracy. Follow me. I will lead you to a place where you're going to be able to support your family, even if it doesn't feel all that plausible, even if there's stuff that rings hollow about it.
The idea that there's somebody there that wants to basically rain chaos on our institutions and bust stuff up becomes appealing. And that is what Trump, that's a playbook that he ran twice. And the second time, which was even more obvious than the first time, he had four years to prepare for an election that he knew he was going to win. for that basically at least half of that time.
And we're seeing the fruits of that now, which is why it's not okay. If you start to see a Democratic Party that's saying, well, it's just that Joe Biden was too old. It's just that Joe Biden shouldn't have run. It's not at a party that's actually saying, how could we have possibly lost to this candidate who, among other things, stripped away a woman's right to choose in his first election?
And we still lost to him his second election. I would have thought that I would have. disqualified him out of 330 billion Americans. And yet he not only came back, he won more decisively than he did the first time with a broader coalition of Americans than he won with the first time.
Actually, I think that it's the way I hate to say this, but I hate to say this, but the joy he takes in trolling the Democratic Party. You know, it's like it is like Lucy in the football with him. And and and it's and it's and we've got to stop. We got to stop showing up with the football in a way that Donald Trump, you know, it. can have the result that he has day after day after day.
I think he's doing basically a terrible job. You know, he is destroying small businesses because of the tariff war he's put on. He's got now his latest drug company stuff that to me seems totally fake when the American people actually need us desperately to address this drug crisis. He's got a reconciliation bill that I think in the end,
is not going to support working people in America well, and it is going to absolutely destroy any remnant of fiscal balance that we have as a nation. That's not it. And he's alienated our allies and created a go-it-alone strategy for America. I mean, I...
All of that stuff is is is it is much worse than we should be expecting out of an American president, much less than we should be expecting from an American president. And yet we're getting it because the Democratic Party has twice failed to beat this media star from New York City. And that's not his fault. I blame him for many, many things.
including for the fact that he's got no theory on education over health care or how to build an economy that works well for everybody. I blame him for many things, but getting elected is not one of them.
Let's hope that doesn't happen too soon during your term.
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