Ruben Gallego

totem that you are living the good American life.

And again, that could be anything for everyone else.

But we need to be the party that that's what that like I want to vote for the Democrats.

I'm going that those guys are going to help me hit that.

We kind of slid away from that in the past, like if the last couple of election cycles, I think we need to we move back into that.

That's part of like a big winning message going forward.

Exactly.

It almost sounds to me- You're proud of being American, essentially.

It's like you're just one step away from just like, damn right, I made it in this country.

Well, sort of.

Let's back up because, for example, you talked about getting rid of a gifted program and what are these other things?

I don't know where that comes from, but there's no actual parents and parents group.

And you and I are both parents.

I have a kid in elementary school and he's in one of these gifted programs.

But there's no parent or parental group that wants to get rid of these gifted programs.

It is capture, ideological capture by the school boards.

And it's the dumbest thing you could do because the way you keep the best parents in these school systems...

which sometimes have a mixture of all these economic groups, is to have these programs, right?

And those parents are the ones that are most involved.

They're the ones who can be the biggest advocates.