work, some of my books, et cetera. with a deep understanding of the constitution and a commitment to it and i think that that we will go further with the agenda than trump did if we do it based on constitutional principles. first principles and moral authority, not just vengeance and grievance. yes, i am an outsider. i think it takes an outsider to take on the administrative state in china. it also takes somebody who has a bone deep understanding and commitment to the constitution and i think that s the you unique combination that i m looking to bring to the table. last president who did that was a ronald reagan, on first principles he went further than anyone ever had. i think we have an opportunity to do the same thing in 2024 and unite the country in the process. that s why i m in the race. to your point, you re right, we know a lot about you and one of the things i think i can speak for everybody had that we appreciate is your recommitment and constant harkening back to first pri
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the health of the nation. so we can t just come to selma, we have to address these issues, not about commemoration. it s about recommitment to the things that make our democracy healthy, and what we know is that in the south, even today, poor people make up at least 40 percent of every southern state, poverty and low wages. most of those states have at least 50% of their states that people make less than a living wage, and we know that in these realities when you disaggregate the numbers, 28 million down, the investment by covid, that s going to go away, and we know whenever you disaggregate the numbers, poor and low wealth people, dr. king said at the end of the march, the great fear of southern aris, to build together
progress underestimating that is inaccurate and probably not that encouraging to people. but overestimating and learning that s meant losing sight of some of the fundamentals including that wealth gap it is vital to see the truth. your thoughts. i was very privileged to be in that audience when the president spoke this morning at the action network and for us, us as a community, this is a day that is not just remember it s but recommitment. it is not a holiday but a day to holler. exactly what you have just laid out. we are seeing efforts to block our access to the ballot that we have not seen since august 1963 when we had the nation s greatest march on washington and the most memorable speech that doctor king gave. this august it will be the 60th anniversary and we are still
ourselves, and this is what david wrote. maybe our ideals were not so out of date. maybe our institutions were not so broken. maybe the people the ukrainians needed to be, maybe those were the people we could be again. what the western world is getting in return for its aid to a powerful recommitment to be its own best self. we didn t believe the ukrainians could do it, in part because we didn t believe we could do it, but they did, and so did we. and we now look at both ukraine and ourselves in new ways. the extremists and conspiracy theorist, the populists, the authoritarians, the kleptocrats, the theocrats who have gained ascendancy in recent years, they do not see us, and sometimes