Rahm Emanuel
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We were exhausted.
Yeah.
And this is a, you know, look, you got three more years of Donald Trump.
So the question is, and I think this is what I'm betting on, is the country's going to look at this and say, okay, the puck will be not to have a democratic version of Donald Trump.
The puck is going to be, how do we... And I think that's actually what's... One of the things I've talked about is the party should be post-Minneapolis.
I know this will come... Yes, there's an ICE component.
There's an immigration component.
There's actually...
I think all the people in Minneapolis showed their true citizenship.
There is this- Democracy's working.
Not just democracy, but also I have an obligation to my neighbor.
I have an obligation to the person down the road.
And I believe the answer to the future is national service.
Reigniting that sense of bonds, not your diversity, not your differences, but your commonality.
And I think the country's desperate for, which is why going back to 05, but as recently as last year,
for the paper that Washington Post wrote about the need for national service.
The last six months of high school should be mandatory six months, clean a river, work alongside kids you never met, tutor, do a series of things, because guess what?
Being an American is a gift.
He got some of it.
I'll give you a great anecdote.