do and shouldn t fight for. [cheers and applause] tucker: that party is getting more radical by the day. so where that does leave someone like john delaney? well, we recently talked to him about that, and here s what he said. so, the question is, has the democratic party changed irreversibly? are we going through a moment, you know, a frenzy that will subside and the party will get back to making economic arguments? i mean, put some perspective on this, if you would. i think we are going through a moment, and i do think the party will get back to the party of my dad s kind of democratic party. my dad was a union construction worker. and he used to say if you care about workers, you vote for the democrats. and that s the democratic party that i grew up in, and i think we ll get back there. that s where i get the sense most democrats are, but the loudest voices in the room are getting a lot of coverage right now, and the activists have had a very strong kind of voice in the
schools in oklahoma only go to schools four days a week because there s no funding for schools. these teachers are not going to strike for frivolous reasons. they want to be in the with the kids. my mom was a teacher in the midwest. my sister a teacher in the midwest. these are the hardest working people i ve met. neil: you haven t met charlie gasperino. my old man was a union construction worker who fell off scaffolds and i could have sworn he worked harder than my social study teachers mr. becker. and i went through a lot of strikes and i get why you strike, but my dad was in the private sector. i have a problem with public sector people who go into a job working for the government, getting benefits from government. you don t have to work during the summers, you get a nice pension. i have a problem with them just going on strike. and i think they should listen, if you don t want to be a teacher, do something else.