This seems like a worse own goal than “defund the police” as a slogan, best of intentions but the execution was so bad.
I’d put heavy money on Republicans running chunks of this interview hard during the run up to the midterms.
I have a sinking fear this will be one of those tragicomic moments of earnest, well intentioned progressives inadvertently helping trump, like when many sat out the 2024 election in a misguided attempt to somehow help Palestinians.
About the same number of Biden voters were trump voters in 2016: https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results
In other words, folks who are actually persuadable.
Meanwhile, if those 6 million want to help trump’s agenda by sitting out again, that’s horrific ahit with which they have to live. (Holding American Democracy hostage because you want everyone to be more progressive is pretty goddamn terrible.)