Rep. Sean Casten

You've got a whole lot of young men who's forward-looking

forward expectations is different than what they thought it was going to be.

And AI is making that worse because the jobs that are being displaced are jobs that historically skewed very male.

People who analyze large sets of data identified trends and prepared memos for their bosses, right?

Whether that was a bank or a law firm or an engineering firm.

There's a lot of uncertainty there.

And I think the

I think the person who gets really energized at a Bernie Sanders rally is not that much different than the person who gets really energized at a Charlie Kirk rally.

The institutions are terrible, and I'm going to support someone who burns them down.

And I think there's sort of a nihilism at the fringes that's really dangerous.

If you come forward as a politician and say, trust me, the institutions are going to be fine.

You're not very credible.

I think there are very few politicians I've seen, but I think this is what we want.

And I keep going back to Teddy Roosevelt, who says, I love the institutions, and they are desperately in need of repair, and this is what we're going to do.

Right?

And that, I think, is the more interesting divide right now.

Not uniters and dividers, but who's the person out there who can say, I understand your pain.

I understand that the system did not work for you in the way that you thought it was going to go for it, but we're not going to burn it down.

We're going to work together to make it better and make it more inclusive, right?

I keep going back to the 20s.