Ro Khanna

But I don't think just being anti-Trump is the way back for the Democratic Party.

of why people can't call balls and strikes i think it's both it's that uh unfortunately there has been more extremism and hate uh in in our country i mean people really uh have lost the ability to try to see uh the good in others and to to say look we've got some humility we may not have all the right answers and we want to engage i think i used to say money in politics is our biggest problem now i believe hate and extremism is our biggest problem in in this country

And then you're rewarded if you do the most outlandish things because we're in an attention economy.

And if you pick a fight, people pay attention.

And so if you're kind of sober, you're going to lose support from your your own party, your own base.

But my hope, and I hope this for both parties, that after the Trump era, and I think even Trump supporters would acknowledge he's divisive.

I mean, look at what he said at Charlie Kirk's funeral, where Eric Kirk gives this beautiful statement of forgiveness.

And he says, well, I can't forgive.

I hate my enemies.

But after eight years of that, I really hope that we don't devolve into both sides just hating each other more, mimicking Trump's style of communication.

I hope whoever the Republicans put forward will say, look, we want to go forward.

It's a new generation.

We've had three 80 year old presidents in a row in this country.

Like we have a new generation of governors and we're going to be aspirational and we're going to talk about positive things.

And I hope the Democrats will do that.

I think there are folks like Andy Beshear.

There's folks like Wes Moore.

You know, whatever you think of the three people who are going to win in November, Mamdani, Abigail Spanberger, and Mikey Sherrill, you know one thing all three of those campaigns have in common?

They don't spend a lot of time talking about Donald Trump.

They're talking about their own vision, their own ideas about what they want to do for their city, their state, for the country, and the world.