Rep. Maxwell Frost

Yeah.

Thanks for having me on.

Well, you know, I think and something I've been talking a lot about is the fact that we need an affirmative agenda.

Right.

It's not enough just to run against something.

And this is something that I believed in far before I became an elected official.

Right.

As an organizer, this is something that you focus on, not giving people something to vote against, but something to vote for.

And the fact of the matter is we're.

We're at a point in time in our country where people are very desperate.

Wealth inequality is at its worst, which means that for working people are being siphoned out of the middle class and being put into what I call the working poor more and more and more.

And what this is doing is it's creating a desperation in our people where they will suspend their values and beliefs on a lot of different issues.

Because the thing right in front of them, taking care of their family, being able to have health care and housing and food and all these things is at risk.

And this is part of the reason why we saw so many people who typically might vote for a Democrat or typically, you know, if you were to ask them, are you conservative?

They'd say no.

That's why a lot of them ended up voting for Trump or not voting at all.

And it's something that we see.

You know, we were talking about before about South America.

I was in El Salvador earlier this year on the Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia case.

I got to speak with a lot of people from civil society about this is a country where, what did that president win by, 80% or 90%?