Ro Khanna

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That's because I'm rooting for America to succeed in peace in the Middle East.

That doesn't mean that I adopt Donald Trump's policy, but I just think we need as a party to be honest about where someone is putting forth something that we may agree with.

And where they're not now, of course, he's doing a lot of things that we could get into it that are unconstitutional.

And that's and he puts does antics like having Hakeem Jeffries in a in a sombrero.

And it you can see why there is such anger.

He's been running cars threatening to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

I mean, threatening universities with with their speech.

So there's reason for the anger.

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.