Sean O’Brien:
Well, it certainly hasn’t been a subtle beginning, but the reality of it is, the Democrats, as I have stated in many platforms, forgot who they represented.
I think the Democrats were too focused on social issues, which are very important, but our members were more concerned about the economic issues. And the Democrats seemed to wanted to tell people how they should vote. And my membership is very active, they’re very intelligent, and people don’t like to be told what to do.
So the Democrats have a lot of work to regain the confidence of working people, especially our members. But the Republicans also have some work to do because they made a lot of promises during this election. They made promises that they wanted to be the party for the working-class people. So we’re going to have the ability to work and hopefully rebuild a Democratic Party that once represented the core values of working people, and also work in conjunction with Republicans.
And look, I think, by the vote of Secretary DeRemer and the cooperation, I think we had 17 Democrats that broke ranks that were told to vote no, no matter what, so that’s a good sign. That’s a great sign. And, look, our goal all along is to get both sides to collaborate on behalf of working people. There’s going to be issues that we don’t agree on, but there’s going to be a lot of issues that I think we can work collectively on to effectuate positive change on behalf of working people.
