"With respect to the Democratic National Convention, you know, I think the party is sending a very clear signal about whose votes they are reaching for and whose they aren’t. They have John Kasich, who is a Republican and who has attempted to pass some of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the state of Ohio, in a prime spot, when there was news for a while that suggested that they weren’t even going to allow AOC to speak. Of course, they now have. But they have made gestures like barring The Young Turks, one of the preeminent lefty news organizations, from having a press pass to a digital event. Why you would do that, other than to send a kind of signal to progressives that you’re not interested in their vote, I don’t know. So, it’s a really curious choice. It feels again like it’s 2016, and there is a dynamic being set up where there is a kind of wanton disregard for the values and interests of what is coming up to be the new base, the insurgent left wing of the party, the part of the party that just celebrated the victory of Cori Bush last week and Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones. And it is telling that the only people under the age of 40 — under the age of 50, rather, who are speaking at this event are AOC and Pete Buttigieg."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Lawyers from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesHarvard University alumniPolitical commentators from the United States21st-century African-American women
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Briahna_Joy_Gray
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Briahna Joy Gray
Briahna Joy Gray (born August 15, 1985) is an American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant who served as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Gray is a contributing editor for Current Affairs, and was a senior politics editor for The Intercept. She hosts her own podcast, Bad Faith, and co-hosts The Hill's web series Rising.
11 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Briahna Joy Gray →
Related Quotes
"If you spend your time saying "it can never happen" while occupying a position to make it more likely to happen, you'…"
"6 ppl hold > wealth than the bottom 50% of America. There's more wealth inequality today than any time since the gild…"
"It's hard to define "progressive" but it seems to me you shouldn't label yourself as such if you don't think that dec…"
"What you’ve seen in this latest slate of picks is a lot of emphasis on the identity of the individuals picked, a lot …"
"All of the emphasis on the firsts, of the diversity of this crew, but less emphasis on whether or not these individua…"
"In a world where student loan debt, especially in the course of the primary, was still being characterized by the ove…"
"We are in the middle of the largest protest movement in American history. And it’s a protest movement that’s all abou…"
"And so there’s a great deal of frustration that there is this choice not only to nominate a candidate who is known as…"
"Joe Biden has articulated very clearly that he is the candidate who promises that nothing will fundamentally change."
"There has been an implication, online at the very least, that the people who have raised concerns about Kamala Harris…"