Now, the former Labor secretary is running to become chair of the Democratic National Committee, an organization he firmly believes needs fixing.
He thinks Democrats could learn by watching what Republican Party has done in recent elections, from focusing on races for state legislature and state attorneys general to coordinating with allied groups.
“We have this opaque, top-down, Al Haig command-and-control structure in which DNC members are chronically under-utilized. We’ve ignored wide swaths of America.
We don’t have an every ZIP code strategy,” Perez said over IPAs in an interview for POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast. Cold War references are on his mind a lot these days. His favorite cartoon character is Rocky the squirrel from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”— because “he was a little faster” than the moose, Perez explained—but he's been thinking more about Boris & Natasha, the cartoon's Russian spies.
“What Donald Trump and [Vladimir] Putin have in common is that they have no moral compass,” Perez said. “Their whole being is about themselves.
” Perez described the Trump phenomenon “a dumpster fire from the get-go, and his entire administration has been, you know, chaos and carnage.”
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