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Brianna Wu Wants to Change the Democrats Playbook dreams for their families and their children It's friends my age who are dying to have a child and don't know if they can afford to do that. The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters Considering the internet culture leading up to the election, some have said 2016 was a banner you think that's accurate? Absolutely I've rarely talked about Obama's share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate. I had two separate calls with r for internet trolls. Do Interview by Ana Marie Cox the White House, and they were telling were some ideas me ting together to address Gamergate with out needing to go through Congress, and nothing came of it. And what happened is a lot of people learned that there are no con- women. ay to Grand Theft Auto and I decide to blow there are going Many people are familiar with you as a prime target of Gamergate, a harass ment campaign against women in the video-game community. Considering the flood of abuse you received, why would you decide to do something as high-profile as run for Congress? It terrifying, right? The thing Gamergate taught me is that there's nothing I can't handle. What is someone going to do: Call me ugly? Threaten to kill me? I already deal with all of that on a daily basis. I realized I needed to do this in a business meeting after election night, where I couldn't even concentrate because I was so upset. I knew I wouldn't feel good about just making to be consequences to that; eventually I'm going to go to jail and maybe pay 100 bullying campaign will do anything? № changed for you since then? I still quite virtual dollars. We don't even have that Do you think Melania Trump's cyber- In college, you volunteered for Sen tor Trent Lott, a Republican. What has enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side. I can't think of any Republican policy I would agree with off the top of my head, but I do think that a sense of personal agency about your choices is good, in general. In the aftermath of Gamergate, you said that you and the otherwomen who were harasse video games for the next four d "did everything right, and the So Trump's victory reoriented you? It helped me come to the conclusion that Republicans are very, very effective at getting people to go out there and vote with their emotions. That's a real failure of the Democratic Party. Ilook at my own party, and I see that we've taken this tech- nocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked-and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself Do you really think Democrats need to nages from the Trump playbook? ystem failed us." Now you're saying you want to be a part of that system. Do you think you can make changes inside of it? To me, the only way to get further gains on these issues is for more women to be represented in Congress. I don't even care if it was a higher percentage of Republican women: I genuinely believe that if that number were closer to 50-50, we wouldn't have ludicrous policies like the Hyde Amendment going through and devastating women's access to reproduc Age: 39 Wu is o founder ofHer Top 5 Things

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