Rep. Maxwell Frost

And the question is whether or not we, when we're back in power and even now, do we fill them?

And I think that's the biggest test for our party right now.

Do we run on it, win on it, and then most importantly, do it?

Because you get a lot of people who say the Democrats only have a communication problem.

I think that's part of it.

But that would mean, well, we do everything right, but not enough people know about it.

I think there's a doing problem as well in terms of what we run on and what we do.

So there's a few things there, but I'm actually pretty optimistic in this moment.

I think for the first time in my lifetime, there is no democratic establishment right now.

Some people might disagree with me when they hear that, but an establishment is when all the top power brokers are doing the same thing.

There's so much...

feud and all this stuff in the last election that there is no establishment.

It is up for grabs.

So I think we hear from the base and the people that they want that kind of change.

And that's why I'm a little optimistic, even in this dark time that this party can change and do what it needs to do.

It's the ideas and it's also what we do when we have power.

Of course, under four years of Joe Biden, there was a lot of really good bills passed.

But part of the problem is the most transformational parts of those pieces of legislation.

I traveled the country for Kamala Harris, right?

I would go speak with people and they would say, I don't feel it.