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  1. “But that's not been the reality for most of human history and certainly not most of American history. And you cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness now are greater than the reasons for hopelessness for an unemployed worker in the early days of the Great Depression who would never have heard of the New Deal. You cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness now are greater than the reasons for a hopelessness for a closeted LGBTQ person in the 1950s who never knew of an America where they could live openly and authentically as themselves. Yes, things are challenging. But we have faced greater odds. We couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel in previous generations. And that's what feels scary now is because for the first time in perhaps all of our memories, we can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. That's new for us.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “The history that I get to exist in as a member of Congress, right? Every single time I go on the floor of the House of Representatives, I know it sounds hokey and cliche and trite, but you cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness now are greater than the reasons for hopelessness at almost any other point in our country's history. It is felt in the post-1960s world like we are on this unending cultural wave of momentum that everything will work out if we simply work for it and fight for it.”

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  3. “Is not what most people are. And I see the goodness, I see the grace that exists. I see that even with people who I disagree with because I get to interact with them. Right now we are just have, it used to be, you didn't talk about religion and politics at the dinner table. You never talked with people about those topics. And that was fine while it lasted. But we talk about politics now. We just talk about it in the worst place possible online. Actually, I'm encouraging let's have a conversation about politics in real life. Let's be proximate to one another and have those conversations because it will instill a sense of hope in you. And then the second thing that Think helps me to be a bit calmer in this moment with the Trump of it all is I try to take stock in”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “About any topics, but about the things we disagree on in the real world. And I take a lot of comfort in the fact that we are not as divided as the algorithms make it seem. And that helps to recenter me in an environment where Trump feels so loud and everything feels so existential because I see that he doesn't represent where most people are. Even if most people who voted in the last election voted for him. that the worst that we see from him.”

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  5. “I am scared, quite frankly. I think any American would be naive not to be scared and to worry that this could be an existential moment for our democracy, for our country. I try to set her myself in two ways. One is I think Trump and everything he represents is also compounded by this information environment that we live in right now Everything feels so cruel and toxic and where everyone either completely agrees with me or completely disagrees with me where we see where we see the worst because the algorithm privileges the worst. And Trump is both a byproduct of that and a contributor to that. And one of the things that I find a lot of gratitude in as an elected official is I'm forced offline Forced to touch grass. I'm forced to engage with people who think and vote differently than I do, not just”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Your government was not supposed to hurt JD. Yeah, JD's speech here last. No, look, I'm not saying that the regulations in the EU, which obviously you all are not a part of much to, I think all of our chagrin, I don't think the regulations are perfect, but I think there's a lot we can learn from those laboratories of democracy that have been a bit ahead of us. We can take the best bits from both. And I think that we have to be clear-eyed that there is possibility, there is significant positive possibility, and there is quite literally existential risk here. And it's going to be impossible to put the toothpaste pack in the tube. And so we need to start doing this bit by bit right now as fast as possible, because if we don't, it could be too late.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Aren't being put out of a job because this AI model is taking their work and creating art on its own. So I do think that there are human-centric regulations that we should be adopting. We need standards, we need safety protocol. I do think that there should be liability if an AI business creates a model and they become aware of the impact that that model is having on people's mental health, I think they should be held accountable for that. So I think those are a handful of things that we should be doing. And I think we can learn one of the benefits of the EU is that on AI, on social media, it's further ahead than we are. Some of it's good.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Force or consumer protection for human redundancy in certain sectors, we should guarantee that there's human redundancy as a matter of consumer protection or even workforce protection. I believe that in places where we are seeing AI produce content based on copyright”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “It I have a bipartisan bill that would essentially create nutrition labels for small business IT folks to be able to actually navigate AI products in a more effective, competent way. That's a small, but an important way to level the playing field between large and small businesses. But I think we need larger scale regulation on things like I believe we should have sector-specific regulations because I think AI presents different opportunities and different challenges sector by sector. But in all of those areas, we should have human-centric regulations. We don't want China to lead. We don't want regulation. We can't put our heads in the sand and hope AI never exists. It's going to happen. The question is where does it happen? I want it to happen in the United States, so we do need smart regulation, but it should be as often as possible human-centric. So that means if there's a need based on workforce.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Esoteric, it is hard to comprehend, even for a young digital native, it is challenging to really wrap your mind around the technology and the full breadth of possibilities that it could unlock and the full range of risks that it could present. I have started, I'm on the science base and technology committee, and I'm proud that I've actually already introduced bipartisan legislation on AI in an effort, actually, a small way, but to address the potential wealth disparities that we will see, advanced AI technologies, not only are they going to increase productivity in a way that workers will likely not benefit from, but it will also increase the divide between large and small businesses as these large employers are able to adopt AI on a mass, fast scale, the best models, whereas smaller businesses are going to really struggle with adopting it understanding”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So you are 100% right that AI presents to us certainly the biggest change for society since the Industrial Revolution. And I would argue that there is a possibility based on its impact on our economy, on relationships, on health, that this could be the biggest change for humanity since we stop being nomadic creatures and started being stationary agricultural communities. And I agree with the critique that we're not talking about enough or doing enough about it in Congress. And I think it's hard because it is.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Yeah, I think that's what I say is I think that it's not just what we need because people are demanding it, but because the times and the need demand it. I mean, economic inequality, wealth disparity. Globally and particularly in the United States is out of control and it potentially is going to get worse both because of the corruption of the administration and because of AI.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Digestible policies. But then I think on the other side, look, I am socially progressive. But one of my favorite analogies that the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus uses is a former union organizer is when you're organizing a union, You're going to have people who are black, white, Hispanic. You're going to have people who are Pro LGBTQ rights and maybe not so pro, you're gonna have pro choice, pro life people, and everyone's united around the shared goal of better wages and better benefits.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “You've got to get both together. I think there's truth. In what both sides are saying. Because I do think we have suffered from the fact that our economic policy has not felt bold enough. I think part of the reason why people don't think we prioritize economic issues is because they can't point to clear, digestible economic policies from us, whether it's as simple and straightforward and classic as raising the minimum wage or we're prioritizing paid family and medical leave. That's what I passed in Delaware as a byproduct of my experience as a caregiver. That's what really actually led me to run for office. Childcare, Zaro Momdani ran on. I think the progressive movement is right. We need bold. We don't say radical as a negative connotation in our politics, but bold economic solutions, both because the times and the need demand it, but also because I think if we want to prove to people that it is our priority, they need congregation.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I think that that's broadly speaking correct. I personally am of the mind. Look, I'm a member. This might sound politician-y, but I'm a member of both the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the New Democracy, which is... Center left, so CPC is AOC.”

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  16. “Well, I think the longerstanding divide in the Democratic Party has been between people who consider themselves progressive and those who consider themselves more moderate. In the Labor Party, New Labor, soft left, hard left, right? I think every single party has that challenge.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Of my favorite lines in Ted Lasso, which is actually a quote from Walt Whitman Be curious, not judgmental. We need to embody a liberal democratic pluralism that creates space for disagreement, that doesn't automatically presume people who disagree with me are bad people. We can tap people's better angels, but you can only do that if you authentically, genuinely see them yourselves. And then the third thing is a politics of place, a hyper-focus on the place that they were running in that transcended their partisan identity. Zaran Mamdani was New York first. Mikey Cheryl and Abigail Spamberger were New Jersey and Virginia first. And that politics of place, I think, is really powerful to make connections with people who may disagree with you and may even identify as a different party than you.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Rightfully talking about throwing out the blue ribbon commission, we're going to have executive action on day one on freezing energy bills. They focused on the politics of prosperity. The second is a politics of pluralism. I like Ted Lasso a lot.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Feeling was so discordant with what we were saying, the stakes were. I think people just dismissed it. I think that in the last election in November 2025, we saw Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey, Georgia. Obviously, there was a victory unsurprising in New York. But I think all of the successful candidates in those races executed three things well. The first is they ran on the politics of prosperity, on affordability, on a laser-like focus on lowering the cost of living, and with tangible, discrete solutions, right? Zoran Mamdani had solutions that felt big and bold to people in New York. Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey was”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “I think that People, and I don't know that this is necessarily something that we could have done better, but I think a big part of the last election did boil down to people going, Democrats have been talking about democracy and the threat that Trump poses. We survived his first term and prices were lower. And that”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “That and it wasn't about the substance of those issues. Most Americans are pro choice. While there are differences of opinion and polling on things like sports, don't look great for the trans rights argument. Broadly speaking, the public supports non-discrimination for trans people. It's not that the public opposes those things. It's that they want the priorities of the party. To be their ability to pursue the American dream and making it a reality for them.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Absolutely, and it did help. No, it didn't get so curious. It helped, especially in 2022. To avoid that red wave. But I think then it left people thinking, this is your priority. I think we had seen a lot on LGBTQ issues. So I think in some ways sort of being a victim of our own success, perhaps the amount of progress left people thinking that that was a priority. And it goes back to what we talked about earlier. There was a massive right-wing well-funded effort.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “I will tell you a lot of, I will say. In 2022 and in 2024, there was a lot of paid media from Democrats about abortion. It did play a pretty prominent role.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Perception of the priorities of the Republican Party. Their own priorities appeared in their list of their perceived priorities of the Democratic Party. It was healthcare and it was five out of five. The top two were abortion and LGBTQ issues.”

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  25. “No, but I think they transcended that. I think there's parties are not defined just by their leaders. Parties are not just defined by their elected representatives. Parties are now sort of this amorphous blob of things that are defined by a mix of groups and politicians and people on social media. And I think that the sort of democratic ecosystem left that impression in people's minds. The second is I think that talk about misplaced priorities. I think that they felt like our priorities did not match theirs. When you asked an American voter, certainly in the last year, what are the top five priorities for the Democratic Party? What are the top five priorities of the Republican Party? And what are the top five priorities for you as a voter? And they averaged all those answers out. Three out of the top five issues for the American voter appeared in their”

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  26. “First, I already mentioned which is I think many people feel like our party, our coalition looks down upon them. And so you never get to that second question around policy. It's personal, it's visceral.”

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  27. “I think they thought it was stupid one because I don't think they bought that there was something that we needed that required that new territory. But I also think even more than that. And I think this is sometimes it works in our favor. Sometimes it doesn't. But I think the American people are very much of the mind that we have serious problems at home, that we should be focusing on and prioritizing. And they certainly didn't think that this large island that they really only know because they see it on a map in school. That needed to be seizing that needed to be the priority of our government at the expense of lowering costs for working people, at the expense of restoring funding for Medicaid that the Republicans cut. I think that's what they want our priorities to be. And I think they see it as a misplacement of priorities.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “I think public opinion overwhelmingly in the United States favors Ukraine. I think it gets a little bit more complicated when you start talking about aid, as is always the case in most countries. But the American people overwhelmingly support Ukraine. Not quite as overwhelmingly as they oppose taking Greenland. I mean, that... The polling on Seizing Greenland, I mean, the opposition to that was Was like Putin numbers in an election in Russia. I mean, it was like”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  29. “Where might makes right, where there will be kinetic conflict between great powers and middle powers. And then eventually, once you've dominated your neighborhood as a great power, you want to expand your neighborhood, and then eventually there could be very easily conflict, kinetic conflict between great powers.”

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  30. “And I think that was part of the theme of Mark Carney's speech in Davos was not only do we have to grapple with this reality, but for many, this was a reality long before Trump. Look, I believe that the US and the global order that we have benefited from for the last 80 years, indeed it was imperfect. Indeed, we were not perfect, fair, even arbiters of those rules. And yet it was still a much better Aspiration than what we are seeing this current administration seek to create now, which is essentially not an imperfectly executed moral order, but an amoral world order.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  31. “The American people was the fact that this conversation was even happening. Insulting is not strong enough a word. I mean, it's dehumanizing. It's the indignity of having to plead for all that they've done. The Danes lost more people per capita in Afghanistan. Any other country. The only time Article 5 was invoked was after 9-11 to see that sacrifice not only explicitly denied by the president, but to have it just completely, completely insulted by, again, not strong enough a word, by threatening to take another country's territory. The pain, dehumanization, the indignity, you can't just say suck it up. It's profound and it has real, tangible and lasting consequences.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  32. “It was bipartisan, bicameral, both members from the House and the Senate, although the Republicans were just from the Senate. I think if we had some more time to organize it, we would have gotten some Republicans in the House. I mean, it's hard to overstate just how unpopular both in Congress and with the public the president's attempt to either by force or intimidation seize Greenland was. People would come up, they knew we were there. It was getting wall-to-wall coverage because of how scared Greenlanders are and were because of how bewildered, insulted, painful this was for the Danes. And people would come up to us with tears in their eyes, almost begging us. What do you need from us for us to wake up from this nightmare? What can we do? We are willing to essentially do everything short of what no country would be willing to do, which is to give up our own territory. What can we do? And I think one of the things that we tried to convey to both our colleagues.”

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  33. “Because they don't want to have to actually engage with the substance and the merits or lack thereof of what he's doing and what he's saying. They want the easy way out. It was in the first Trump administration, I didn't read the tweet. Now it's, oh, he doesn't mean it. It's fine. He'll, you know, he'll backtrack. It's rhetoric. I think the thing that was most profound for me in Denmark come up to us on the street.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  34. “I am sick and tired of Republican politicians. Yes, telling us not to believe our lying eyes. I'm sick of Republican politicians telling us that we should take him figuratively, not literally. I'm sick of Republican politicians telling us just to suck it up and get over it every single time this president does something that is unprecedented, harmful, insulting, and dangerous.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  35. “To really assert his sphere of influence philosophy of a global order, which is a might makes right in my neighborhood global order. And I think he sees this as an opportunity as one of the proving grounds to make that a reality, to normalize that philosophy and to create precedent for that philosophy. I think Venezuela is part of that as well. I think his engagement with Russia on Ukraine is also an example of him trying to normalize and make reality a new global order where great powers get to dictate what happens in their neighborhood, regardless of the territorial integrity or sovereignty of a neighbor.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  36. “I don't think that there's a positive in his motivation. I think it's fundamentally selfish. I think a couple of things. One, I think he sees it as an opportunity to seize land dramatically expand the size of the United States, and that's part of his legacy. I think he sees Greenland as an opportunity.”

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  37. “But I don't believe that we can eliminate that as an option and close off that as a path forward because it is, again, imperfect, but probably the best way to minimize loss of life.”

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  38. “That criticisms of the Israeli government are not in and of themselves anti Semitic. On the second point, first of all, I think there's a difference between young Palestinians and young Israelis wanting a two-state solution or believing that it's possible. I personally believe that it is the best, if not imperfect solution to guarantee individual rights for both Israelis and Palestinians as hard as it will be to achieve. I also believe it has been a talking point for a while. I do believe that people have not done enough to see that through. But we cannot give up on that possibility. I mean, the alternative is just unacceptable to me. And people can be pessimistic that there is a realistic path forward. I understand that. I'm not particularly optimistic that it's something we'll see in due course.”

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  39. “On the first part of the question, yes, things have fundamentally changed. Public opinion has fundamentally changed. And it is understandable that when people see the carnage and the death and the destruction in Gaza, They would be outraged by it and want things to change. And that includes the way that the United States engages with the Israeli government. And so I do believe that things have significantly shifted. And I believe that Netanyahu and his government and their actions have dramatically precipitated that public opinion change. I think it was occurring before October 7th and before Gaza, but I think their actions and I think many American Jews feel this way that their actions have responsibility for that change, that it's not propaganda, that it's not... Anti Semitic for people to be outraged by what they see.”

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  40. “Firmly believe that Palestinians have a right to self-determination. I fundamentally believe that there should be a Palestinian state where there's dignity and safety and individual rights for Palestinians. And I believe that that can coexist next to a safe and secure Israel as well.”

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  41. “Well, I wouldn't say that my position dramatically differs from many in Europe on this. I believe that October 7th was indeed a horrific terrorist attack that Israel did indeed have the ability as any nation does to defend itself and what they have done in Gaza went far beyond self-defense. That what we have seen in Gaza is horrific. It was and is a humanitarian crisis that was at minimum worsened with intentionality and disregard for human life by the Netanyahu government. I believe that right now we have to do all we can to maintain the ceasefire that exists. I'm glad as tenuous as it is that there is something in place. But I...”

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  42. “And by extension, we don't respect them or care for them. And that's true of the Republican Party, right? For trans people, LGBTQ people, many women, people of color, immigrants, the list goes on.”

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  43. “Is a crossing of the red line because a mother has to love all of her children equally. And I think that if we are to be effective as a party, we have to recognize the reality that we are engaging in and the double standards that exist. Because, you know, I think at this point, one of the challenges my party has faced, and we'll probably talk more about this, is that people when they go to the voting booth ask two questions. The first is, What does this party think of me? What does this candidate think of me? Do they like me? Not just do they care for me? Do they respect me? Do they like me? The second question is, what does this candidate, what does this party think? If you can't answer that first question to a voter's satisfaction, it becomes very difficult to get them to that next question. And I think that there are also a lot of people, unfortunately in our society right now, that feel like my party doesn't like them.”

    2026-03-29 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 182. Culture Wars, Identity, and What Needs To Change In Congress (Sarah McBride) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  44. “So there are two different standards that our parties are held to. And I think those double standards make a lot more sense when you understand that more or less the Democratic Party has become the avatar of womanhood, of really all of the different sort of marginalized identities it's been fighting for in the Republican Party has become the avatar of sort of white straight men. And because of that, Republicans can be loud and yell and get angry and they're seen as strong and when Democrats do that they're seen as shrill and hysterical. When Republican politicians insult and dismiss and write off half the country, people tolerate that because we tolerate deadbeat dads. But if a Democrat says that one half of Donald Trump's supporters are deplorable, which I disagree with, but if they say that, that is...”

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  45. “Allows us to have a dialogue because at the end of the day, that is the only way for us to move the ball forward on this. And it's the only way for us to make progress on any issue is if we maintain our capacity to engage across disagreement.”

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  46. “And I think there is actually a lot we can learn about some of the larger problems that we face in our democracy, in coalition building with this issue as a case study because I do think, and you touched on this, like I said, I think we have to be able to make a distinction between people who are entering in good faith and people who are not entering in good faith. And I do think we have to figure out if we want to, one, affirm that people are more than just what we believe to be their worst position or action and two, if we want to actually be effective in changing people's hearts and minds, we have to be willing to engage in a dialogue with those folks who enter in good faith, who have questions, in a way that doesn't immediately call them bigots, in a way that doesn't dismiss their concerns or questions as completely irrational or hateful, in a place that”

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  47. “Think it will inevitably change over the course of my political career. I didn't run for office to be known for my election. I ran for office to be known for what I do for my constituents. I ran for office to focus on the issues that I ran on and that I know my constituents are concerned with, the issues that I am spending my time in Congress working on, issues from healthcare to paid family and medical leave to childcare to foreign policy. And so I believe over time that this conversation will evolve, that the way people talk about me will evolve. But I also understand I'm not naive to the moment that I have entered Congress in. I'm not naive to the curiosity that people have. I'm not naive to the fact that when you are a first, that will be at the start something that people want to talk about.”

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  48. “Of conversations around gender that are actually much larger, the bigger iceberg under that is the cultural regression around women's rights period and gender equality period, where we now see young men at historic lows in support of the proposition that women deserve equal pay for equal work and women deserve the same opportunities as men.”

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  49. “Concerted and well funded effort, especially in the United States, to target trans people, to make us the center of political discourse and debate, to run $200 million in ads featuring trans issues. Three, I think it is genuinely hard for some people to understand. Four, I think that there is a larger regression in gender equality that is happening across liberal democracies right now. I think right-wing nationalism has successfully first exploited immigration and has shifted to also exploit progress for women writ large in our society, any kind of gender progress. Think they are telling a lot of young men who I think rightfully feel like there is not opportunity before them, that the immigrants are to blame or women are to blame. And I think trans people are at sort of the tip of the spear.”

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  50. “Yeah, so there's no question that this is being weaponized. There is a big difference between people with genuine questions or genuine concerns that are coming to this conversation in good faith and those who are acting in bad faith, those who are very clearly trying to take a vulnerable community, regardless of whether you think their gender identity is valid or not, trans people have been, when I was growing up, the only examples I had were punchlines in a comedy or dead bodies in a drama, right? And they are trying to take that community and score political points on their backs. One, I think that when gay rights hit a certain level of public support and legal momentum, the movement against gay rights shifted to trans people. One, two, I think that there was a very clear”

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