Bill de Blasio is a fan of Bernie Sanders, who was born and bred in Brooklyn, but the NYC mayor still says he has a better shot at winning over disaffected Democrats than the Vermont senator
"I think the reality is at this point when the Democratic Party is identified as the party of working people, when it has a clear, progressive, populist economic message, it is not only, from my point of view, philosophically, morally the right place to be, it is also the way to win elections. I think the 2016 election is the, unfortunately, the object lesson for the wrong way to do it.
I think what is really happening now is the solutions are more about political change than they are about negotiation. If you look at how dug in the Republicans are in the House and the Senate, maybe on some issues there will be some common ground in some areas for negotiation. But on many levels, only political change is going to move them, including political impact from their grassroots up. And I think that's an area — bluntly — Democrats have not done a particularly good job at.
...The second lesson, which is not just from the Obama years, I think it's several decades, is to refocus on the state legislatures. Because what we have learned is that the presidency does not exist in a vacuum, if you will. It's not just about what the president does with their executive powers or what they do with the Congress. We saw it in the Obama years, we saw it in the Clinton years.
"And I want to know that any leader can give a persuasive argument that they can make change. So, you can mouth the words, people see through that pretty quickly. How do you prove it? Again, what I bring to the table is, I said I was gonna do a whole set of things in New York. I did them. They constitute real change.
...But there was a whole lot of people who also felt it was a conversation that had to be had because millions and millions of Americans had a conversation with their kid. And it was somehow missed by the majority culture that that was a reality. And by the way, majority culture, if the shoe was on the other foot, they'd be having that conversation with their kids. So it was time to surface it.
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