My thing is, I always look at it from a simple perspective.
Y’all paid me to do something, or if you’re elected me to do something, I work for you. Okay?
Where the Democrats lost, and I think you made a good point earlier, they fell in love with their captors.
They fell in love with big tech.
And they forgot who they truly represent: working people.
You know why? Because they’re not in their communities, they’re not in their neighborhoods.
You know, they’re not talking to the people that they’re paid to represent.
And when you talk to people one-on-one, look, I can sit in my office all day, every day, and try and solve problems over the phone and I’m not going to get a true testimonial of what is actually going on.
And I told you earlier, like, I’m in workplaces, my partner and I, we’re in workplaces, you know, three days, three different states per week.
And we’re not talking to leaders or anybody else.
We’re going to the shop floors talking to rank-and-file members.
That’s where you get the best gauge.
And that discipline should hold true.
And I think the Democrats forgot that they need to be in their communities where they represent, talking to people, finding out and identifying the issues that truly matter.
Look, this whole election for the Democrats was based on social justice issues, right?
Our members, you know, the Teamsters, and I can speak for the Teamsters, we solved a lot of those social justice issues by negotiating the strongest contracts, by fighting for rights, fighting for diversity, fighting for, you know, equality in the workplace.
And it seemed like this narrative of the social justice issues, it didn’t identify with our members.
Our members identify with more money in their pockets, more job protection, you know, better pensions.
Core issues.
Core issues and a path—a path from the start of your job into a career, into retirement.
I mean, it’s simple blocking and tackling.
And that’s not what our members wanted to have.”
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