and just to be clear. i do not think that the way forward is to imulate trump. not in any way, shape, or form. i do however think that we need to be sure that our vocabulary is touching down with people in their every day lives. take aca, which seems to be the topic of the day. we re still talking about it in terms of numbers. numbers like 20 million americans which is an important number, but we re not talking about it as much as we could be in terms of lives. you know, for me, this is personal. my partner s mother s life depends on chemotherapy that she bias. there are a lot of people in this community who have been tugged politically whose lives are depending on something like aca whether they understand it or not. that s our job to communicate. very quickly, should democrats fight trump full stop or should, you know, for instance you may have heard a little bit of the potential health care replacement bill that two republican senators are working on that frankly if it ends up the
about their lives are not necessarily trackable on one political spectrum. they find issues they care about, but there has been an attempt, particularly on the right, and there s a white supremacist strand which has been there a long time, a neo-confederate that wants to delegitimize the political, legal well, that doesn t abide by majority rule. take aca. it s upheld by the supreme court, passed by both houses of congress. if people don t like it on this kind of neo-secessionist they want to say, no. by the way, rick perry, remember one of his big platforms was to nullify the 17th amendment so that a majority of americans could not, in their state, vote for the senate of their choice. there s a book called a big sort by bill bishop. we live in like-minded communities more and more. we did it because of lifestyle, but it has huge political and paul, that s part it s an you are ran/rural divide as