Racial resentment is like psoriasis.

It can go away and it seems like it's not there.

But when somebody picks at it, it can become the most prominent thing around.

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So how much is the Democratic Party actually changing?

If they take the House, if you guys, I should say take the House coming up, is it going to be

different?

Oh, yeah, I think what you'll see is basically a lot of issues-based clashing with the White House, right?

I mean, I think that as we've been talking amongst ourselves, people want to make sure that it's not just fighting for the sake of fighting or fighting based over personalities, but fighting on issues.

So on the immigration issue

and trying to get us to comprehensive immigration reform, on raising the minimum wage,

on environmental standards, things where we have legitimate disagreements with where the president

and this Republican Congress have taken the country. And so that's what we're going to focus on if we get back the House.

Now there was an agreement between the Dems and the Republicans on a budget, for example,

where I mean I remember Chuck Schumer saying, you know, sort of this was a place where the

two sides would come together.

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