Ro Khanna
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Because I'm always honest, I disagree with you on the National Guard coming there, but I do agree with you.
Well, I think Bloomberg had a good record.
I think look at what Matt Mahan and Dan Lurie are doing closer to home.
I mean, they're saying, look, we need more police.
We need to understand that if people have mental health issues and that they're not getting off the street again and again and again, that you can go to a court and say they need treatment.
that we need to be funding more temporary housing, not just permanent housing.
Because yeah, we want permanent housing long term, but that doesn't mean in the meantime we do nothing.
So I think that they are pragmatic.
They've acknowledged it's a problem.
And and they're working at it.
What I what I don't think works is just denying people's feelings, because partly it's like when I was growing up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we used to leave our house doors unlocked, unlocked.
And that's the lived memory of a lot of people.
And, you know, the problem of doing denying it is if you embrace
Trump's whole thing is, look, life used to be simpler in the 1960s and you could leave your doors unlocked.
You had a good job.
You worked in a manufacturing place.
You supported your family.
And you know what?
If you don't want to move backwards because there's a lot of social progress we've made, there's a lot of great parts to our diversity and people from around the planet here that we've got to make sure that everyone buys into the future.
And safety is first in that.