Dean Phillips
@deanbphillips
Recovering Congressman, dad, entrepreneur, and Gold Star Son. We must make courage, common sense, and cooperation cool again. Everyone’s Invited! 🇺🇸
As I bid farewell to Congress today, I depart more deeply in love with my country and more deeply disgusted by the dysfunction of our government. We can and must do better, and my mission to awaken America's exhausted majority and make common sense cool again is just beginning.
So the Speaker of the House declares he’s “done being lectured about transparency” as he shuts down the House to prevent transparency? We should know what’s in those files.
PSA: It’s unadvisable to take Ambien before your wedding ceremony or presidential debate.
Let’s start with national health insurance (private care delivery), streamlined permitting for energy and housing construction, and reimagining public education. The private sector and best and brightest on the left and right must stop being the problem and start solving the…
Born and educated in the DC-area, Sen. @OmarFatehMN is just as American as the racists saying “go back to Somalia”. True patriots will debate his policies & experience, not his heritage. 🇺🇸 And if Democrats don’t restore common-sense and fix bad policy & broken systems,…
Socialism will take root in America unless capitalism begins to work for more people and raises the foundation for all. We already spend more on healthcare, housing, and education than any nation. We have the minds and the money. Just need political leaders to prioritize repair…
If you grew-up watching Sesame Street and learned American history through Ken Burns’s documentaries, you have PBS to thank. What a shame.
To everyone right of center who has supported my independent leanings, please look objectively at the dismantling of some foundational principles of American conservatism - ones that have served our country well all the way back to Lincoln. But this is not that. And you may ok…
It’s perfectly reasonable to object to candidates based on policy. It’s shameful and dangerous to object based on race, religion, or birthplace. If you’re an American, you’re an American. Enough of the juvenile ignorance.
fun fact: I’m not wondering if there’s room for views and approaches like Mr. Mamdani’s in the Democratic Party, I’m wondering if there’s room for the views and approaches of about 100,000,000 of us in either party.
fun fact: Zohran got more votes in the NYC mayoral primary than Phillips did in his national run for president
I believe in raising the foundation for struggling Americans before education and wealth disparities, accelerated by AI, result in regression or revolution. ...in portable, lifelong, universal health insurance, but the private provision of care. ...in a roof over every…
It's weird you were quiet when we all knew Biden could neither beat Trump nor serve another term. And it's weird you're now loud when a 33 year-old with no management or executive experience, who favors "seizing the means of production" and opening government grocery stores to…
It's weird that a big tent Democratic party wouldn't include the guy who just handily won the Democratic primary in the city with the most Democratic voters in America. #votersmatter
My father was killed in Vietnam after earning an ROTC scholarship to attend college. Later I was adopted. I believe Mr. Mamdani was the one born into privilege.
Behind Zohran was the most voters in NYC primary history. These guys aren't just rejecting him, but the millions moved to electoral action by candidates like him. Maybe our big tent should have less millionaire nepo heirs & more fighters for the millions of working class people.
Council Member Ellison: You haven’t spent 5 min with me. A lot of us, center left and center right Americans, believe our income & wealth inequity is shameful, that this immigration war is despicable, and we cannot call ourselves great UNTIL healthcare and housing become…
People like Dean love to say “neither far right nor far left” but never want to name which left ideas they think are equal to which rightwing ideas. Far left: healthcare for all, housing as a human right Far right: racial purity, no rights for workers. Dean stands for nothing.
Imagine if 25% of Americans loved Coke, 25% loved Pepsi, and 50% preferred Red Bull but couldn’t find it because Coke and Pepsi colluded to own the supermarkets?
Independents are the biggest growth category in the US and it’s not close. ⬆️🇺🇸
Question: Is there room for you and Mamdani in the Democratic Party? Phillips: The answer, ultimately, I think, is no When you have socialists in the Democratic Party, I don't know how anybody could argue that that would be beneficial for the party or for the country
I remember Ann Landers. She was my aunt! 🖊️
Remember Ann Landers? This is good.
Special interests finance THE CARROT - political contributions which buy access to offices, and THE STICK - lobbyists, many of them former members of Congress who often provide bill language. The people being hurt by this bill can finance neither. Imagine that.