I just wanted to share a personal reflection from the Zohran/AOC/Bernie rally last night. Several people saw this conversation I got to have with former Governor Andrew Cuomo last week, not here, but on Morning Joe.
And people came up to me yesterday at this event very nicely and said, “You know, thank you for asking him hard questions. Thank you for asking him about whether he learned anything from being in all these #MeToo scandals, all these women accusing him of misdeeds. And asked him about what he, as a person with such tremendous political clout, influence, power, political family that he comes from, how he could be losing to this guy.”
And what a lot of people asked me yesterday at this rally that really moved me was, “How come we don’t get questions like that all the time?”
Why aren’t these the questions that we hear more often? Well, the reason is that people who work for these old structures cannot necessarily ask whatever questions they want. Some of them can and do, but it’s hard. And I remember not being able to use the words I wanted to use.
And I want to say very explicitly, it’s because of this community that I can do that. It is very specifically the infrastructure of newsletters that allows it. I used to work for The New York Times. I now work for you.
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