Rep. Maxwell Frost

I mean, something ridiculous.

But 80% or 90% of the country doesn't agree with him on all the issues or wouldn't even align with him.

But it's that it got so bad in terms of safety.

that people suspended their beliefs on a lot of other things to handle the one situation.

That's how people like Trump get elected.

Fascists and authoritarians don't come to power when everyone's doing good, when everybody has health care, when everyone has enough resources for the family.

It happens in times of desperation.

And what we have to do as a party is we have to understand that not in terms of just how we talk about the issues.

It's not just about identifying the right issues, but it's about providing big,

bold transformational solutions that people see themselves represented in like, Oh, that thing would change my life would like make it way easier for me to live in this country.

And, and that's what I think we really need to get with the program on.

No one's interested in like this one bill that would fix some things for some people around the edges.

If you're within this income bracket and you'll get it in four to eight years, like,

It doesn't work.

It's not a winner politically.

And it's honestly not good policy, especially in a political system like ours, where in four years, the next person can undo the whole thing and you never see that policy come to fruition.

And it's like this thing that happens over and over again.

And I guess what I'm talking about broadly is the fact that the kind of neoliberal policies, I think we're going to have to put that aside and take a step back and look at big, bold transformational change.

And I think in one way,

Trump is really showing us the potholes in this system that we have.