Patrick Gaspard

That election is important because it conditioned a particular kind of behavior amongst institutional Republicans who then surrendered to the Frankenstein monster that they had built in their basement and let loose in the world. That's what leads to the Trump moment, et cetera, et cetera. But let's not forget that Eric Cantor was actually moving in the direction of his primary audience.

That election is important because it conditioned a particular kind of behavior amongst institutional Republicans who then surrendered to the Frankenstein monster that they had built in their basement and let loose in the world. That's what leads to the Trump moment, et cetera, et cetera. But let's not forget that Eric Cantor was actually moving in the direction of his primary audience.

And where the groups were just not quickly and nimbly enough.

And where the groups were just not quickly and nimbly enough.

And where the groups were just not quickly and nimbly enough.

The politicians move to the extremes if they feel that that's where their bases are. The groups are important in creating accountability and a sense of civil society in our country that we can't lose sight of, even though you are right to have a critique about how strategic they are and whether or not there are some extremes there. Your critique, I take as right, but I'm a Thomas Paine guy.

The politicians move to the extremes if they feel that that's where their bases are. The groups are important in creating accountability and a sense of civil society in our country that we can't lose sight of, even though you are right to have a critique about how strategic they are and whether or not there are some extremes there. Your critique, I take as right, but I'm a Thomas Paine guy.

The politicians move to the extremes if they feel that that's where their bases are. The groups are important in creating accountability and a sense of civil society in our country that we can't lose sight of, even though you are right to have a critique about how strategic they are and whether or not there are some extremes there. Your critique, I take as right, but I'm a Thomas Paine guy.

So I'm always going to believe in the need and the necessity of civil society organism that can build accountability and that can, in a way, help to localize our national politics.

So I'm always going to believe in the need and the necessity of civil society organism that can build accountability and that can, in a way, help to localize our national politics.

So I'm always going to believe in the need and the necessity of civil society organism that can build accountability and that can, in a way, help to localize our national politics.

First thing we got to do is lose the mythology of what the workforce actually looks like and what the growing parts of the economy are. When you talk about working class Black and brown folk, they are overwhelmingly people who are in the service economy, people who are in spaces like healthcare, which is the fastest growing part of our economy in cities and states around this country.

First thing we got to do is lose the mythology of what the workforce actually looks like and what the growing parts of the economy are. When you talk about working class Black and brown folk, they are overwhelmingly people who are in the service economy, people who are in spaces like healthcare, which is the fastest growing part of our economy in cities and states around this country.

First thing we got to do is lose the mythology of what the workforce actually looks like and what the growing parts of the economy are. When you talk about working class Black and brown folk, they are overwhelmingly people who are in the service economy, people who are in spaces like healthcare, which is the fastest growing part of our economy in cities and states around this country.

And being able to speak directly and pointedly about those types of jobs instead of constantly mythologizing hard hat jobs as a working class job, which are, you know, very few and far between, and that's not the going parts of the economy.

And being able to speak directly and pointedly about those types of jobs instead of constantly mythologizing hard hat jobs as a working class job, which are, you know, very few and far between, and that's not the going parts of the economy.

And being able to speak directly and pointedly about those types of jobs instead of constantly mythologizing hard hat jobs as a working class job, which are, you know, very few and far between, and that's not the going parts of the economy.

Got to recognize that, you know, the folks who are working in Amazon warehouses for us, for instance, those are not hard hat jobs in the way that they are like taken up in the popular political narrative. Those are part of the service economy. That's not becoming the information economy. Got to recognize that and speak to that and got to speak directly to

Got to recognize that, you know, the folks who are working in Amazon warehouses for us, for instance, those are not hard hat jobs in the way that they are like taken up in the popular political narrative. Those are part of the service economy. That's not becoming the information economy. Got to recognize that and speak to that and got to speak directly to

Got to recognize that, you know, the folks who are working in Amazon warehouses for us, for instance, those are not hard hat jobs in the way that they are like taken up in the popular political narrative. Those are part of the service economy. That's not becoming the information economy. Got to recognize that and speak to that and got to speak directly to