peter: rob henderson, who was mrs. martinez? mr. henderson: mrs.tinez, she was the final foster parent that i had. this was something that only in hindsight as a adult reflect on these homes, i realized that in every home i had, the primary caregiver was a woman. often the foster fathers were at work, or they were checked out. they were not really involved in the caretaking circumstances. so you'd mentioned, how much do foster parents, how carefully are they evaluated or assessed. my sense is not very much, simply because the system is so overburdened. i just recently read that los angeles has one of the most overburdened systems, meaning they have a surplus of children who need homes, and there are not enough foster parents to take them in. of course the state is not going to allow children to sleep on the streets. so in response they lower the threshold for who can qualified to be a foster parent. essentially my sense is that short of outright abuse, social workers in the system will look the other way if it is kind of basic neglect, or less than

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there's a paradox too much anti-racism that seems a lot like what the writer rob henderson has termed luxury. luxury. he believes the policies they advocate for often end up harming the very communities on behalf whom they advocate. the movement to defund and abolish the police. for example, after the summer of 2020 comes to mind. can you expand on that paradox you do in the book? and it's quite compelling, yes. so you give a great example. if you go back to the summer of 2020, after george floyd died and there were protests all around the world and riots, every major american city and you just went up to ask someone on the street who say reads york times, the atlantic and considers themselves to be informed that what percentage of black people do you think want less police? they would have given you some answer. that was probably the majority right? gallup did a poll at that very time found that only about 20% of black people wanted less police. 20% of black people wanted more police. and 60% of black people wanted the same police presence in their own neighborhood. and so that left

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it lost sight of the american mainstream as rob henderson, rights democrats espouse too many luxury values, ideas that confer status on educated elites, but are often deeply at odds with the working classes way of life changing candidates for november could be the beginning of a broader reset. party leaders should reform the primary system to balance the power of the activists minority with the more mainstream majority. more superdelegates with the freedom to vote as they wish, would be one important step the message of the democratic party should be shaped by its governors, senators, and mirrors, not activists and academics the next few weeks could begin to shift. that would make the democratic party more attractive to more americans for decades go to cnn.com slash fully for a link to my washington post column this week. and let's get started with less than four months to go to the us presidential elections. >> many american allies fear or return to donald trump's america first foreign policy and now his choice of running mate ohio senator j.d. vance has only exacerbated that concern just

sally if senior fellow here in aei in a feeling that many of you are already saying that this is rob henderson the trajectory of his life but only go through the broad outlines and he my colleagues naomi riley who was child welfare expert here in aei will fill in the wisdom for that outline.h although extracted this from a very challenging of bringing in hish mother struggled with addiction and she was deported back to south korea when he was three years old printed and he never saw her again. he said next four years and ten different foster homes in los angeles and 87 years old even adopted it settled into her lower class home in california and stable and he had a dad first time in the stability unfortunately was shattered to usually with her parents divorced. and after that, wasas a series f poor performance in school, evangelization with friends who were unfortunately often the same positioning was an coming from unstable families predict on the weed fights and alcohol. but rob is a reader and impose curious entering his senior year in high school, his reading to admin in the air force hims

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friends who have that age with their kids that there are certain shibboleths or what the sociologist rob henderson would call luxury beliefs that if you put in your college essay that if you identify in some way that pings on the radar of identity politics it is it is it is an added value in the application process. now, whether it's identifying as trans, you know i don't whatever i think non-binary is one of these fashionable terms that the kids these days like to use a lot but jonah goldberg, kamala, not a kid these days. >> yes, exactly. >> i wasn't even a kid when i was a kid. so like um, it's like my only point is i think he's getting at something that a lot of people, it's sort of like everyone talks about, you know, don't take trump literally. take him seriously. that kind of applies to what he's dog whistling and talking about there. there's a real thing there that i think a lot of people understand. even if you can easily nitpick the language that he's using. and i say this as a non jd vance fan. now but the thing is, you can say the words d or the letters d, i in the context of college a

rob henderson and and i know the trajectory of his life. but if you going to go through the broad outlines and then he and my colleague naomi schaefer riley who's a child welfare expert here aei will fill in fill in the wisdom of that outline, although wisdom that you extracted a very, very challenging upbringing. sohrab, his mother struggle with addiction and he was and she was deported back to south korea when he was three years old and he never saw her again. he spent the next four years in ten different foster homes in angeles. and at age seven, he was adopted and settled into a lower, lower class home in red bluff, california, which seems stable. and he had a for the first time but that stability was shattered two years later when those parents divorced and after that a series of poor performance in school a lot of vandalization with friends who were unfortunately often in the same position he was coming from unstable families, a lot of weed, a lot of fights, a lot of alcohol. but rob was a reader and he was curious. and during his sen