being a different model where the internet and data is more of a public good that is controlled or managed by the government in ways of connecting people through something like that. you talk in the book which is terrific about some of the downsides, some of the cautions, but i think for our purposes, it s really worth focusing on this extraordinary opportunity that this technology has given, as you say, to a very poor country. ravi, pleasure to have you on. next on gps, the founder of linkedin, reid hoffman, on the american midterm elections. he also talks about the race to start the next facebook or google in silicon valley. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what s in your wallet? like a big pizza pie, that s amore.
the congressional caucus will have about 90 members. 13 committee chairs, 37 subcommittee chairs. they can do a lot to lay out an agenda that is forward looking. should they start an impeachment process? where i sit at the nation, there are different views. we have different views, as do many on the progressive left. the surest way to drive up his support. i believe in accountability, but i think you have to build out impeachment. i m for laying down markers to show the democrats, progressives stand with people in the country, and trump never drained the swamp, and the swamp is now filled with even more alligators. so there s a lot of work to be done. i would say to young people who have entered this as jim said, so eloquently, have been mobilized for the first time, you re not going to win everything, but you have to stay in. it s going to be a long struggle. persevere. persistence. the millennial stuff is really fascinating. if you look at people 40 to 60, roughly 65, they
abroad, and has a foreign accent. plus, he is jewish. many republicans now speak openly and often of the dangers of globalists, but for some reason, these globalists all tend to be jewish financiers. lloyd blankfein, janet yellen, george sorosoros, gary cohn. one can only conclude elements of the republican party are either clueless about anti-semitism or actively encouraging it. america has a history of paranoid politics infused with the belief there is some hidden conspiracy to betray the public, but these used to be peripheral, voiced by marginal figures. when they seem to be growing, as with the john birch society in the 1960s, william f. buckley publicly denounced them. today, senior republicans emulate them. president trump has given a ringing endorsement to alex jones, the country s most
no, look at the closing arguments. i mean, trump is closing with fear, loathing, and bigotry. democrats are closing with affordable health care and pre-existing conditions. and pointing to governors and to congresspeople who voted 20 times to repeal the aca. so i think what you re seeing is democrats need an aspirational message moving forward. about how you invest in the working people of this country for economic growth. and how you show that government is on the side, on the side of people. but i m excited that i think we re witnessing a sea change. i m cautious about tuesday because we need to be cautious. but i think the house goes back. but more important in some ways, as important, look at the state houses. look at the governorships, and let us hope that the barriers to democratic participation, the ferociously well funded suppression of the vote, doesn t demean our country. it is not a right/left issue. james, give me 30 or 40 seconds.
campaign or else another strategic insight that trump had that nobody else saw coming but i think there are two things we can say now. number one, emphasize how different this is from the way any past president has behaved that usually they have taken any opportunity to use positive economic news as the thing to bring everybody together. people who didn t support him. you can think of ronald reagan running for re-election. people who didn t support him the first time could be with him. bill clinton often chafed in 2000 that al gore didn t run on the peace and prosperity message. he thought he would have been elected then. first, this is really unusual. second, it s out of sync with what we saw in most of the country where people basically feel better about the direction of their lives than this dark tone suggests. it s interesting that the places where you have the strongest anti-immigrant fear are places without immigrants. where the refugees aren t, places like steve king s district.