Rep. Jake Auchincloss

And it's really condescending to the average American.

The average American is listening or reading four to six hours of content online every single day, video, audio, text.

They have the appetite to hear Democrats explain ideas in depth, new ideas that challenge the status quo and that explain why we are the party of improvement.

And we are the party for the middle class.

The middle class has not had a voice in the Trump administration.

The middle class doesn't have a super PAC.

It doesn't have a lobby.

But it should have the Democratic Party.

Alyssa Slotkin has been clear on this matter.

And I subscribe to her point of view.

And now we need to explain to the middle class why we are going to tackle and treat cost disease, which has afflicted housing and health care and utilities, which now consume more than half of a middle class family's take home pay.

We will treat cost disease to make life more affordable.

We will take on corruption on both sides.

I've talked about the corruption of MAGA, but there is corruption on both sides.

And we need to take it on through election reform that gets rid of partisan primaries and gerrymandering and Citizens United.

And we need to become the party trusted on education.

The school closures were a catastrophe.

We have not put forward a resonant and refreshing education agenda in the last five years.

And we need to talk about building 1,000 trade schools, about surging one-on-one high dosage tutoring to every student in America, and about banning smartphones across the classrooms of this country so that these kids can learn and thrive.

haven't been conceived there was an old maxim that democrats fall in love and republicans fall in line that's not true anymore what happened over the last decade is that republicans fell in love they created a cult of personality around this individual and democrats fell in line and they fell in line for some righteous reasons and i i think it actually is important to have discipline in the ranks in the house democratic caucus and senate democratic caucus because