Rep. Maxwell Frost

So a lot a lot of what I see online and a lot of what people are asking for, not everything.

I'm not going to say everything.

is a lot of what I'm hearing when I'm knocking doors at home, is a lot of what people stop me on the street and say, you know, thank you for your work on the internment camp in the Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz.

We need Democrats to fight.

We need like bold solutions.

I'm hearing this, I'll give an example.

I spoke at the Stop the Oligarchy rally in Los Angeles, and I ran into some people that I struck up a conversation with who were talking about the fact that they hated Bernie in 2016.

They're very loyal Democrats.

They were more on the Hillary side, and they hated him.

They thought he was the reason Trump won, and I was like, well, why are you here?

You're at his rally.

And they said, well, I think Democrats need to fight more, and the people I've been seeing fight are the progressives, and I think I get it now.

Yeah.

And so I'm seeing a little bit of a convergence there, which is part of the reason I'm a bit optimistic with the way the party can go, because the party is fractured.

We are figuring things out.

There is no establishment.

And the question is, where does the base push us?

Um, and do we actually go in that direction?

And I, and, you know, I've been questioning a lot, the kind of academic ideological scale that we all talk about.

I don't think the average voter goes into the voting booth and goes, well, where on the ideological scale is this candidate?