Jenny Durkan: ‘The baton got dropped,’ and Obama alums are running to finish what he started - a podcast by POLITICO

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan was the first Obama appointee to win a major
election after his presidency. She's part of a network of Obama
administration officials that want his presidency to mark the start of a
new progressive era — and in order to make it a reality, they’re focused
on defeating Trump, not simply by opposing him, but by out-organizing
him.

“‘Resist’ is too passive,” said Durkan. “We’ve got to focus and build a
progress and a movement going forward,”

“We saw the immense amount of positive we could do in our communities,”
Durkan said, adding that she saw also how much gets done when no one is
looking, which she said is happening every day with the Trump
administration.

“Not only are they rolling the clock backwards—they are—they’re in there
dismantling, brick by brick. What he tweets in the morning drives the
news cycle, and in the meantime, there’s an enormous amount of harm
being done to the country,” she said.

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