Tina Smith

Yeah.

We often kind of get sucked into this sort of, is this, are you moderate?

Are you progressive?

Like, where do you fall in the continuum?

I actually don't think that's the right continuum at all.

I think it's a question of whether you actually think that the status quo is pretty much working, whether you think that it needs to be fundamentally changed.

I think that this is exactly the issue.

If you look at Americans over the last probably, what, 20, 30 years, significant majorities of Americans have said that they think that things are terribly on the wrong track.

That they're working as hard as they possibly can and nothing is really changing.

And so...

If you have a governing body that isn't capable, hasn't been capable of making the big changes that need to be made, of course people are going to be frustrated.

And what I think is so interesting, because we often kind of get sucked into this sort of, are you moderate?

Are you progressive?

Where do you fall in the continuum?

I actually don't think that's the right continuum at all.

I think it's a question of whether you actually think that the status quo is pretty much working or whether you think that it needs to be fundamentally changed.

And Americans are telling us that the status quo is not working for them.

And they're telling us that things that maybe would be seen as being, like,

progressive.

It's actually like 75% issues, paid family and medical leave, childcare that people can afford, raise the minimum wage.