my audience and a lot of the left.

Not all of the left, I'm not gonna pretend that,

you know, this is some super majority here.

But they hear you say, we think these leftists,

the squad members are going to fight for us.

We need somebody like that

to reclaim the mantle of Democratic Party.

And if you had said that 18 months ago,

I think the overall majority of people would be like,

yes, totes my goats, we need to grow the squad, et cetera.

But we're in this weird limbo period right now

where I think even folks who wanna believe

are very frustrated by how the last year plus

of the Biden administration has gone down.

And there is a winnowing belief that they are, in fact,

fighting for the things that you described.

So if we take Medicare for all as the example,

there was this kind of frustrating realization

at the end of 2020 that even people who had been,

you know, core to the Bernie campaign

who have been talking about the ex-ingency of the crisis.

And they've been saying how terrible it is

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