I was sort of expecting the Democrats to have a big realization that, Oh my Gosh.
We did something wrong.
Weve got to figure out what that was, he tellsRolling Stone.
Saikat Chakrabarti and former House Speaker Nancy PelosiCourtesy of Saikat Chakrabarti Campaign; SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
She basically made the case for how the Democrats dont really need to change, Chakrabarti says.
You know, that they ran a great race, did their best, and nothing needs to change.
That was the first warning sign to me.
Chakrabarti is no stranger to American politics, especially those of insurgents.
Wages have been stagnating or barely creeping up for decades.
The big expenses housing, health care, education, child care that stuff has been skyrocketing in cost.
And the combination of these two factors has made people feel stuck for a long time.
(Pelosi has since passed the torch to Hakeem Jeffries.
They really feel like its time for something new.
Pelosi is a fundraising powerhouse with national name recognition and has been serving in Congress for nearly four decades.
Chakrabarti sees the length of her congressional career as a liability.
You could rent a place in San Francisco for a few hundred bucks a month.
And then when we asked them Whats your plan?
How do we actually get out of this mess?
theyve got no ideas.
The only way forward, for Chakrabarti, is massive transformational change.
Theres this transition thats happening globally, with or without us, towards clean technology, he said.
Trump, of course, wants to remove the United States from that clean energy transition.
