Oct 12, 2026 · 25 min · 13 segments
With 22 days until Election Day, will Republicans maintain control of the House and Senate? Dana speaks with longtime Republican operative and former Senate Leadership Fund president **Steven Law** to…
Steven LawGuest
Dana PerinoHost
And that is this story in The New York Times that caught my attention yesterday about how many people who are in elected office are under some sort of security threat to the point that they're not only fortifying their homes to protect their families, they're paying out of their pocket and some are deciding to just leave public service altogether.
Do you have reflections on that, given that I know you and I have been working in Washington and in these circles for quite a long time and it's changed a lot.
Lawmakers from opposing sides would fight it out on the floor and then they go out afterwards and have a drink together.
But I think the larger changes that are going on in society are things like the amount of time that people spend online.
in some sort of a digitally and algorithmically curated subset of existence versus being out in society, intermingling with people who you know or you don't know, going to your church or your synagogue or whatever, and just meeting lots of different people.
So people now increasingly are online, getting fed something algorithmically that feeds whatever their desires or needs are.
And then in addition to that, What's happened in politics itself, whether it's upstream of that or downstream of that, is that every political fight is increasingly painted in these apocalyptic terms.
But, you know, there are some people out there who are just more susceptible to doing crazy and bad things.
And you have people that are really right now considering whether to throw their hat in the ring for 2028.
And that is this story in The New York Times that caught my attention yesterday about how many people who are in elected office are under some sort of security threat to the point that they're not only fortifying their homes to protect their families, they're paying out of their pocket and some are deciding to just leave public service altogether.
Do you have reflections on that, given that I know you and I have been working in Washington and in these circles for quite a long time and it's changed a lot.
Lawmakers from opposing sides would fight it out on the floor and then they go out afterwards and have a drink together.
But I think the larger changes that are going on in society are things like the amount of time that people spend online.
in some sort of a digitally and algorithmically curated subset of existence versus being out in society, intermingling with people who you know or you don't know, going to your church or your synagogue or whatever, and just meeting lots of different people.
So people now increasingly are online, getting fed something algorithmically that feeds whatever their desires or needs are.
And then in addition to that, What's happened in politics itself, whether it's upstream of that or downstream of that, is that every political fight is increasingly painted in these apocalyptic terms.
But, you know, there are some people out there who are just more susceptible to doing crazy and bad things.
And you have people that are really right now considering whether to throw their hat in the ring for 2028.
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