Jack Schlossberg

In the meantime, um, you went to Yale University, where you wrote for The Yale Daily News, you were editor of The Yale, Yale Herald, and in an article titled, "In Rally Behind the President," you argued that Democrats do not always play the game of politics correctly.

Now, that was 12 years ago or so.

Do you think that's still true?

Yeah, I think, um...

I'm a Democrat.

I bleed blue.

I believe in the Democratic Party.

Uh, I believe in it because I know the history, and to me a Democrat is somebody who has been fighting for decades for civil rights, for working people, for labor, for immigration reform, for sensible economic policy, that has a party that has a job record that beats the Republicans 50 to one.

So I feel like that story and that history and that association is not something that a lot of people my age or younger really have with the Democratic Party, and I think it's hard when you, uh, are competing against another side that, in my opinion, plays by different rules, uh, doesn't feel obligated to tell the truth or explain or be correct on policy.

Meanwhile, Democrats are busy trying to get the answer right.

And I think, obviously, I don't want us to get the answer wrong, and a, the only reason to be in politics is to try to make a smart policy.

But I think we have, um, we forfeited the cool factor.

We forfeited the kinda counterculture factor.

And I don't know how Democrats became associated with being stale, being stuck in the past, risk averse.

That's not what I think of when I think of a Democrat.

That's kind of what I think of when I think of a Republican.

Mm-hmm.

So I think in a lot of ways Democrats hamstring themselves by trying to get the answer right, trying to, uh, explain the problem, and don't remember to be funny, take risks, tell stories, and I think that that's why I'm running for Congress.

One of the reasons is I think it doesn't have to be that way.

I don't think that we need to just forfeit that to the other side.

I don't think we need to forfeit social media following to the other side.

And I think that there's absolutely no reason that we can't be cool, fun, edgy, and break through, because at the end of the day, I think our policies are way more popular with the American people than the other side.

side.It seems that that cool factor left us after Obama left office.

I mean, he is still one of the coolest dudes in the universe, so how that happened is something that I think people are trying to understand, and in many ways it's a branding and positioning exercise, because how did we lose that so quickly? I mean, we're talking about a decade.

What do you see as the future of, of hope?

In the meantime, um, you went to Yale University, where you wrote for The Yale Daily News, you were editor of The Yale, Yale Herald, and in an article titled, "In Rally Behind the President," you argued that Democrats do not always play the game of politics correctly.

Now, that was 12 years ago or so.

Do you think that's still true?

Yeah, I think, um...

I'm a Democrat.

I bleed blue.

I believe in the Democratic Party.

Uh, I believe in it because I know the history, and to me a Democrat is somebody who has been fighting for decades for civil rights, for working people, for labor, for immigration reform, for sensible economic policy, that has a party that has a job record that beats the Republicans 50 to one.

So I feel like that story and that history and that association is not something that a lot of people my age or younger really have with the Democratic Party, and I think it's hard when you, uh, are competing against another side that, in my opinion, plays by different rules, uh, doesn't feel obligated to tell the truth or explain or be correct on policy.

Meanwhile, Democrats are busy trying to get the answer right.

And I think, obviously, I don't want us to get the answer wrong, and a, the only reason to be in politics is to try to make a smart policy.

But I think we have, um, we forfeited the cool factor.

We forfeited the kinda counterculture factor.

And I don't know how Democrats became associated with being stale, being stuck in the past, risk averse.

That's not what I think of when I think of a Democrat.

That's kind of what I think of when I think of a Republican.

Mm-hmm.

So I think in a lot of ways Democrats hamstring themselves by trying to get the answer right, trying to, uh, explain the problem, and don't remember to be funny, take risks, tell stories, and I think that that's why I'm running for Congress.

One of the reasons is I think it doesn't have to be that way.

I don't think that we need to just forfeit that to the other side.

I don't think we need to forfeit social media following to the other side.

And I think that there's absolutely no reason that we can't be cool, fun, edgy, and break through, because at the end of the day, I think our policies are way more popular with the American people than the other side.

side.It seems that that cool factor left us after Obama left office.

I mean, he is still one of the coolest dudes in the universe, so how that happened is something that I think people are trying to understand, and in many ways it's a branding and positioning exercise, because how did we lose that so quickly? I mean, we're talking about a decade.

What do you see as the future of, of hope?