Yassamin Ansari never watches television. In addition to the series on Netflix, in the evenings, when he returns exhausted from Congress. Elected from Arizona, this 33 year old young woman from Iran represents a new generation of democracy. Those who claim to break with politics are driven by boring compromises and formatted communications.
The Trump administration’s brutality and disdain for legislative power only pushed the Democratic base in this direction. The November 4 midterm elections in New York, Virginia and New Jersey, underscored the desire to break and confront the Republican Party.
Two days later, Yassamin Ansari set up a table in front of the office of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. He put up signs there accusing him of starving poor families and ignoring health care, two key issues underlying the government shutdown, a freeze on non-essential federal activities, which officially ended on November 12. The photo circulated on social networks. After eight senators from his camp gave in and agreed to end the forty-day budget stalemate – which amounted to a capitulation to the progressive base – Yassamin Ansari returned to the capital. On the plane, he improvised a video to oppose this agreement.
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