Ro Khanna
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My anger is that Trump sold them a bill of goods and manipulated their legitimate anger.
And my anger is with our party not recognizing for decades what we did.
I mean, hollowed out towns, rural communities.
You go through, I'm sure you have, into places in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
Okay, Steele left.
Aluminum left.
What did we do?
When a kid growing up in my district, the world's their oyster.
What's happening to kids in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Warren, Ohio?
And you're telling me, well, we can't get traditional manufacturing back.
Yeah, we can have new industries, but what did we do there?
Did we create child care jobs?
Did we create elder care jobs?
Did we create tech jobs?
Did we have any plan for a Marshall Plan for America?
So you're there, and your life is worse off for...
for your kids, and you're sitting there saying, why shouldn't I vote for someone new who's going to tear it down?
And then Trump has combined this with race.
Well, your life used to be better before Rose parents got here.
His nostalgia, his economic nostalgia is combined with the racial nostalgia.