Trumpism

Because like one of my first reactions after seeing kind of the scale of the Democrats' victory, the worst case scenario for me was that if Democrats get this huge mandate, And then don't really do anything material with it.

If they just kind of coast on bullshit, performative anti-Trumpism, doing endless hearings or kind of impeachments that go nowhere.

Because Democrats do really need to go after Trump, right? And they do need to shatter the mega movement.

And they need to go after this federal administration, DHS, ICE, Department of War, right? And they need to do that while setting things up to take power in 2028 to then send even more of these fucks to prison.

So long as people see our politics as being about this red versus blue retribution game, all of us collectively lose.

If you are focused on addressing the ways that bad decisions were made so that you can solve them and then you solve them, that's where I think accountability has to stand.

It's funny because my kind of worst case scenario reaction was that, you know, Dems will just coast on performative anti-anti-Trumpism.

And if anything, I think pressure needs to be applied now maybe a bit more in the other direction.

though, I want to play a little bit of Ron DeSantis.

He was asked if Republicans should move away from Trumpism.

And this is what he said.

President Trump is a unique figure in American political history because he had a unique brand.

And if enough people voted, the change would happen.

And if there's one thing we've learned during the last 10 years of Trumpism, it's that that's not true.

And we know that because Trump's 2024 coalition was the broadest probably since Nixon, probably in 50 years.

And it voted for something very, very specific and it got the opposite.

It's all over the headlines.

And a dozen others tried back in 2018, pretending that some entirely different, decent, moderate Republican Party has been trapped inside this prison called Trumpism.

And now, at last...

They can reemerge.

Cause like one of my first reactions after seeing kind of the scale of the Democrats victory, the worst case scenario for me was that if Democrats get this huge mandate and And then don't really do anything like material like with it.

If they just kind of coast on kind of bullshit, like performative anti-Trumpism, doing like endless hearings or kind of impeachments that go nowhere.

Because Democrats do really need to go after Trump, right? And they do need to like shatter the mega movement and they need to go after this federal administration, DHS, ICE, Department of War, right? And they need to do that while setting things up to take power in 2028 to then send even more of these fucks to prison.

But I think this does have to be, I think, in tandem with also doing the things they campaigned on, which is mostly on cost of living and affordability.

So long as people see our politics as being about this red versus blue retribution game, all of us collectively lose.

If you are focused on addressing the ways that bad decisions were made so that you can solve them and then you solve them, that's where I think accountability has to stand.

It's funny because my kind of worst case scenario reaction was that, you know, Dems will just coast on performative anti-anti-Trumpism.

And if anything, I think pressure needs to be applied now maybe a bit more in the other direction.

Everything about Lindsey Graham, you do not convert from being John McCain's wingman.

a serious foreign policy and defense person to being donald trump's shoeshine boy which graham converted himself into in the space of one year in the space of one year you don't do that that would be you know it's just like it it's just you know people don't change like that change takes time and And Graham just converted overnight to Trumpism.

So he is a fake.

He is a complete phony in every way.

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I wonder how much when you you three were on the trail, what you heard from voters sounded like a reaction to.

the kind of attitudinal stance of Trumpism and the MAGA movement.

And were people tired of just like the meanness and the callousness and the self-aggrandizement? I mean, I'd just be curious what you guys picked up if any of that came into play too.

What I saw in Kansas is it wasn't that a lot of people were voting for Adam Hamilton because he was a pastor and had that religious component, nor rejecting him because of it.

presidential candidates step forward.

You know, we saw Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, come out and, you know, many people interpreted his statements about why the party lost as the opening salvos of a 2028 campaign for him.

And a lot of these people seem to be stepping forward, trying to create some distance between themselves and Trumpism.

You know, in the last 10 years, everyone who has tried that has it hasn't worked.

But that polarisation has probably now cost him in the midterm elections.

Trumpism is probably dead now.

He's a lame duck president, the biggest loss since the 70s.

And I think a lot of that has become because people got...

Uh, he went on a 13 hour, 13 hour, uh, over 200,000 viewers.

And he put, Trumpism is dying and I could not feel any better.

And he says, just imagine a world where Donald Trump is in effing prison.

He just went on.