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Rep. Jayapal reminds us that voters elect politicians to lead, not to only follow the polls and do what's politically safe. Politicians have an obligation to use their platform to shape public opinion. Trump does that to cruel effect, but progressives can do that to good effect.
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Rep. Jayapal names Shirley Chisholm and @RepBarbaraLee as some of the progressive politicians who inspired her.
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Rep. Jayapal doesn't pull any punches: "It's been Democratic presidents who have really suppressed and oppressed people of color and low-income communities." Both parties have been responsible for building our racist and unjust criminal legal system.
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Rep. Jayapal reminds us that George Bush's administration was responsible for building the post-9/11 national security state, but Democrats did not stand up and instead bought into the idea of national security as a justification of incursions on privacy and civil liberties.
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"Trump is both a symptom and a cause." We can get rid of the cause in November, but we also have to address the deep inequality that has build up over the course of American history. We have to address the conditions that allowed President Trump to come to power. -
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Rep. Jayapal takes about how it was hard voting against the HEROES Act, but that was necessary due to the Act's shortcomings. Congress should've subsidized workers' paychecks. "Mass unemployment is a policy choice. A bad policy choice."
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Rep. Jayapal on beating Trump: "There is no progress possible with a dictator in office who is driving this country to fascism. We have to get Trump out. I have spent four years of my life fighting to make the horrible a little tiny bit less horrible and to keep hope out there."
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