Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
When conspiracy theoriest and pillow pitchmen become top politcal contenders, what does it actually mean for the future of your vote? Michael Steele gives you a clear, unfiltered look at how national…
Michael SteeleHostSarahGuestHe's broken campaign promise after campaign promise.
So I would hope that now people are waking up to this idea of him being a threat to democracy when he's floating things like declaring a national emergency in our elections when there is no emergency.
I think to very much to Sarah's point, if I'm just going to put it on a political landscape and sort of you can put a little legal ball around it for me, it shows the degree to which my party, have become the most unserious political actors on the planet.
And they don't have the ability to level up the kind of individuals who are the better reflections of the American people.
And if Mike Lindell is the best reflection of the American people, we are, as they say on the streets, Well, y'all know what they say.
use,
So when I hear someone this play, this this is a little bit of a full screen from from Mike Lindell headlines from out of his mouth.
Dude, where the hell have you been for the last 50 years? Making terrible pillows.
And then win or lose, I will say something if there's a problem with the machines.
When you're just functionally not prepared to step into a job because this is your mindset.
So to your earlier point, and to Sarah's about sort of the dynamics around it, it becomes critically important that we be able to level up people.
out of organizations like yours, grassroots activists, to go and help support voters get to the polls so that their vote will actually matter.
He's broken campaign promise after campaign promise.
So I would hope that now people are waking up to this idea of him being a threat to democracy when he's floating things like declaring a national emergency in our elections when there is no emergency.
I think to very much to Sarah's point, if I'm just going to put it on a political landscape and sort of you can put a little legal ball around it for me, it shows the degree to which my party, have become the most unserious political actors on the planet.
And they don't have the ability to level up the kind of individuals who are the better reflections of the American people.
And if Mike Lindell is the best reflection of the American people, we are, as they say on the streets, Well, y'all know what they say.
use,
So when I hear someone this play, this this is a little bit of a full screen from from Mike Lindell headlines from out of his mouth.
Dude, where the hell have you been for the last 50 years? Making terrible pillows.
And then win or lose, I will say something if there's a problem with the machines.
When you're just functionally not prepared to step into a job because this is your mindset.
So to your earlier point, and to Sarah's about sort of the dynamics around it, it becomes critically important that we be able to level up people.
out of organizations like yours, grassroots activists, to go and help support voters get to the polls so that their vote will actually matter.
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