Reflections on the Revolution in Virginia

from being five Democrat seats to four Republican seats. I got that to those numbers, maybe it's six and five excuse me, to ten and one nears bankes no difference on that. The map is sort of ridiculous. For instance, the county where Arlington is will have five representatives. As you can imagine, that is perhaps one of the most blue counties heavily populated. So of course what they're doing

is basically Jerry Manner stacking the deck. It was a narrow election, all in less than a percent, and I think that there are a couple of interesting things to take away from it. This wasn't super surprising to me as far as results go. The state is just on the edge of being a blue rather than a purple state. As you can sort of see in the raw results, pretty much every county shifted to the right minus Northern Virginia.

The raw breakdown on this is sort of interesting. Major cities were plus one or two, like a pretty narrow margin, but Northern Virginia often called Nova right swung heart and that was the deciding factor. The suburbs, rural areas all strongly no, no surprise. But that's the sort of breakdown of the results. A couple things to take away, which is one, this will turn into a legal fight for a couple of reasons. Right, let me just pull this up so I can have my notes in front of me.

But effectively, the way that this was done broke several laws. Not to get too into it, but effectively what they did is two years ago they had a special session is supposed to be a temporary thing to pass a budget. They kept that going for two years and used that to get this on the ballot. Also, the way that the there are state laws in Virginia that basically limit redistricting to benefit the incumbent, right to benefit the group in power and so who knows there will be a

legal challenge. I don't necessarily have a ton of faith in that, but it's interesting to see. But what can we take away from this, Right, One, the most basic level, the Democrats are really good at politics, way better than

the Republicans. That's one. We'll come back to that. Two, it's not surprising given that the Virginia GOP or the Virginia gubernatorial candidate win some Earl sears was sort of the basis of my GOP Samson option article and then podcast, is that this was sort of thrown, not really thrown. But the GOP did not spend anything on this. They didn't dump a ton of money into it. They sort of just did what they could. Believe. The Democrats spent I want to say, two or three times more for

a pretty narrow margin of victory. So that's part of it, right, there's a certain amount of malfeasance. It also is interesting because it shows that the state is more to the right than recent electoral results would tell you. Now, look, it's still a blue leaning state. The Virginia Republicans in a previous era were sort of Chamber of Commerce types. They welcomed certain industries. They welcomed immigration and they're dealing with the consequences of that. But when some earl sears

the previous governor was an astonishingly poor candidate. So for background, our last Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, sort of unexpectedly snuck in off of the back of a major trans scandal in the Louden County Public schools. A boy had self described as trans, used that access to the bathroom to horrifically abuse several students, and the school covered it up.

This sort of coincided with the election catapulted Youngkin into power, and he was a moderate who's a moderate Republican made not really a lot of sort of hardline changes that you or I listener would appreciate, but governed well. So did things like, uh, you know, fixing our DMV system,

you know, increased government efficiency in that way. And even during you know, the second Trump presidency where Republicans were hurting, he was very popular, right, he had a he was I believe a fifty eight percent approval rating, and so he would assume, I mean literally just run the same guy, he would have won. But what he and other Republicans in his organization did is. Well, they didn't want that.

They wanted this woman when some earl sears, who was a Jamaican immigrant woman of color, seems like a very nice lady. They wanted her, and so they didn't run a primer, they just selected her. There are reports from state legislatures, legislate tours, excuse me, that they were being threatened if you know, if you oppose her, if you run as a candidate, we'll make bad things happen to you. And really, when she was sort of railroaded in, that's when I saw the writing on the wall, because the

base didn't want her. Why did the base not want her, Well, there's the obvious reasons. She's not representative of I mean really Americans at all. Let alone, you know, the kind of good old boys, even the old money in the state. And also she had kind of bad opinions, right. She was very anti Confederate Monument, she was anti Trump. And look, as you guys know, I'm not a big fan of the president. I've done dozens of hours on exactly that.

But fundamentally, in combination with just being a poor choice demographically, the writing was sort of on the wall, right, So we start to see that sort of creeping malfeasance. Similarly, during the race, she's just getting beaten or to post. And now we saw the consequences of that. Right, what happens when you in a purple state in a blue state. Now make that sort of run right where you try and you know, pick up points due to you know,

identity politics. Right, Oh, we're the first party that ran a female woeman of color, immigrant. We lose both, right, you lose your base and you definitely don't get any of the demographics you would expect to. Or an article about this for Chronicles a while back called in Search of Natural Conservatives. Right, the idea is you hear echoed all the way since Reagan, is that different minority groups

Black Americans, Muslims, immigrants are all naturally conservative. They don't like gay marriage, you know, they have traditional family roles. But despite years, I mean decades longer than I've been live, tens of millions, if not more, of dollars to cultivate those natural conservatives. Well, what do we see. We see what once the rural seal shows us, which is that she won absolutely abysmal percent of single digits right of

all of these relevant minority groups. She dramatically lost women, and so that bet that we've made over and over and over again, all it turns out didn't work right. Nobody liked her, and well, what were the consequences of that, Well, the consequences of a blue but not dramatically blue state

with Democrats and all three branches. I mean it was dramatic right, sweeping bands on firearms, impunitive policies around trans stuff, lgbt UH, complete restrictions on you know, any group tied to the Confederacy, which that will probably end up going to courts. Well, but point stands for legalized race discrimination.

There's a law going through basically a ward that will basically force the government, the state government rather to choose women and minority owned contractors, even if they are they are more expensive a ratio of about eleven percent, So literally financially incentivizing race communism, which is not good as

unjust is wrong. And so we see the consequences. And so given that that sort of trial run right of what happens when you lose, we would assume that, well, the next time around, when what we are voting on, this sort of event is not simply one election with consequences one way or another. But the voting map going forward, Now,

it's interesting, this is technically temporary, we'll see. I am somewhat skeptical that any party, Well I should say that that the Democrats will give up such a huge electoral advantage just because it's temporary. You would assume, given that you would pull out all the stops, right, you would losing to a large number of electoral seats, basically shooting yourself in the foot going forward. And well, that's not what we saw, right, we saw the same sort of

limp wristed approach. I think it's important to mention that this did turn out slightly differently than I expected, because you know, the last election was an absolute dropping. Abigail Spanberger won about fifty eight percent of the vote to forty two or pretty dramatic, where this is a much tighter race. It was like fifty one point four four and I mentioned earlier how that broke down by location. But effectively, the referendum got significantly more votes than the

last candidate did. She was a astonishingly poor candidate, really not that surprising. And what's interesting is that because this is cast as as a temporary measure. It was justified as a response to Trump. There's a clip of Trump talking about redistricting in Indiana which was unsuccessful. I might mention where he basically said, you know, they need to they need to Jerry Manner. He didn't say those words, and that was a big part of the motivation for it.

And I think there's a couple things that are interesting, which is one you mentioned or I mentioned earlier that the Democrats are just better at politics. And this is a classic example, because one Indiana is much more Republican than Virginia is Democrat. Not that you'd not that you'd know that right from how those states are governed per se.

But the Republicans weren't able to do it right. You remember that guy with a special need son who he shot it down because Donald Trump said the word retarded. Can't allow that. So I'm going to be principled. I'm going to say this is wrong. And so Indiana has the same districts that used to Republicans didn't pick up it.

Now we've seen other redistricting in California and Texas, and I think that that's sort of an interesting trend if we look at the last ten years of politics, is that really purple states are going away, states are becoming hyper partisan. You've actually even seen that in internal migration, right, where are people moving? Generally speaking, you have red state voters from places or read voters excuse me, from places like California and New England moving south, moving to other places. Also,

you have in states like Florida, blue voters leaving. Now that's not an endorsement of the Florida political class, who I have my firm criticisms of, but that is an interesting development. Of course, we're seeing increased polarization, and so to me, this sort of jerry mannering is probably an overly punitive way of describing it, a creative interpretation right around voting districts that will most likely increase. But again,

quite simply, the Democrats are better at this. One of the ways you can tell they're better is the how this came about, which I mentioned earlier, right, sort of abusing and torturing the system to get what you want. There's no pretense that these rules matter unless if you're held to account, So why bother? That's how you will play if you want to win. Right, if you view this as existential, which seemingly at least one side of

this doesn't. I mean, on another point, I think it's worth bringing up even the language of this of this amendment. So this is what you would have seen if, like me, you went into your polling place yesterday. Question should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections? And then it says, you know, it

goes back to normal after twenty thirty. I think that's interesting that phrase, right, restore fairness, because you're seeing the advantage of being in power. You get to set the question, you get to set the null hypothesis. You are using your power to give yourself more power. That's how it works. That's what a win is, you know, a win. And this is a problem that I think right wingers and conservatives have more generally, is that the moment they get

a win, however small, they're like gorillas. Right. They want to beat on their chests and scream to the sky. You know the meme, right, We're gonna have and kill you. Right, is exactly that we did it? Did it? Reddit? It's not how they work. Right, They're much better about this. They understand that what do you do when you win? You reinvest it back into the business. This is the equivalent of, you know, the kind of prototypical sports star who gets a big contract, who gets a win and

dumps it all into you know, g wagons and gold chains. Right, you're flexing it. You've got this power, you've got this wealth, and well what happens what goes away? You compare that to you know, figures like Jack, who you know, admittedly is by no means a philosopher, but he's a smart man. He took his athletic career, took that money and reinvested it. He owns a notable percentage of all Chick fil A franchises across the country, and now he is obscenely wealthy. Right.

He took that initial win, that wealth or that power, and reinvest it, put it back in And well, how do you do that? Well, a big part of it is, like I said, setting that hypothesis, because if you just read that, you would really have no idea what it

was about. Right, Seemingly, I want to restore fairness. That seems like a good thing in elections, but you know, you, if you hadn't looked into it, you have no idea that this would take a fifty five forty five state, which is pretty close to you know, a one seat advantage in a state with eleven seats. Right, that math is pretty close. It seems pretty fair too, you know, a ninety two eight. Whatever the math on that comes out to, don't check it. It's not right. But that's

power at work right now. Big picture, what comes from this. I mean, look, as a Virginia and not particularly excited about this, things are going to get worse. And I think for a lot of people in purple even blue states, there is this feeling of like, ah, should I leave? Should I get out? And look, if you have a business that's going to be affected, if you're a government contractor, if you're an FFL, right, someone who sells guns, I can't blame you for wanting to get out of Dodge.

But look, I live here, I've been here, my family at least for four hundred years. On the shelf next to me, I've got two comprehensive you know, family histories that date back to the seventeenth century. Right of my people being here, my friends, I have a community I'm not lead, and there will be consequences of that. Things will get less safe. I've decriminalized homelessness and reduced the mandatory minimums for you know, kind of minor crimes like

rape and murder. So that's that's a real problem. That definitely affects me. And there is a world in which those become so drastic, so dire that you know you do, like Abraham, you need to flee. But it's not me. I'm staying here. I don't know where else I would fit. But on the national stage, there are reasons to there are reasons to be pessimistic. Right, the Republican Party is seemingly self immolating, at least I think deliberately. And when we look at you know, what seems to be an

impending energy crisis. A lot of people, this is a sidebar, were too quick to dismiss the energy problems with the strait being closed because it didn't hit immediately. You have to understand that the way commodities contracts work, which I say you have to understand as if I understand it, but that shock won't hit. But nonetheless, right, you have a president bleeding popularity, a party you know, undergoing chaos, and so yeah, like that's probably going to produce a

very negative result. But if we're talking about this sort of gerrymandering and redistricting nationally, there are a couple things at or worth mention, right, if we're looking at the kind of deliberate sabotage, the fact that the Save Act hasn't passed is a pretty egregious example of that. This is massively popular according to voters and would significantly help conservatives the GOP if they were to pass it, and yet a GOP controlled Senate won't do it, right, Senator

John Thune won't make it happen. Now, you have to understand, I'm not a Republican Party guy. I don't love the Republicans. But also I understand that I would much rather live in a state even with an ineffectual Chamber of Commerce style Republican in office, then I would you know, a bunch of foreigners, right, the Party of foreigners. It's directionally better. It doesn't solve all our problems. That doesn't get us out of this. But I live here, I have a

house family. But even with that, and that's a significant bit of malfeasance. That is a massive squandering, right that we're putting all of this political capital into blowing up girls schools and Iran and you know, giving Benjamin n Yahoo the sloppy topy and we couldn't get that done again. We're seeing an instance where instead of reinvesting that power back into the business, we're squandering. We're blowing it all right, we're doing a gender reveal seemingly on every block in Iran.

But also right if we look at targets basically like where are each where's each side set to hurt? It's actually different than you'd think because I was pretty black piled about this until I looked into it. Florida hasn't done any redistricting yet. It's an interesting option, especially because Ron DeSantis, who I don't like, but seemingly is making a bid for a Supreme Court off or a Supreme Court seat. We'll go with that. So that's interesting. That's

a spot to watch. But also we've got a census coming up, and the trend I mentioned earlier, which is you know, blue states like New York in California losing people, states like Texas and Tennessee and Florida gaining. That will be an interesting rebalance. Now, do I think that that gets the Republicans out of the absolute disastrous situation they have put themselves in. No, But it's an interesting variable. Right,

This is a multivariate problem. And while it is in fact so over for me, I'm not entirely sure how over it is for everyone else. Also, we have several things at the Supreme Court which I'm interested to see

how they turn out. Obviously, birthrate citizen ship is one, but the Voting Rights Act, right, the part that basically requires race specific representation for you know, you know who primarily in the Deep South, which is sort of artificially boosted the Democratic Congress people from the Dirty South, right, or an interesting thing to keep on there. It also seems like we're gonna they I shouldn't say we even if for flexively I want to, Uh, you have the

you know, a GOPC in Maryland going down. It seems like Ohio is balancing that out, you know, as you know another one in Missouri. So it's interesting, right, it is a multivariate You also have one of the other things that the party in my state has done, so they basically said that Virginia will only give out electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote. I don't think that has reached a reached a state or stage excuse me, where it actually matters yet, it's still

just promised. But that is interesting, right, that can majorly change how how kind of elections shake out in the country. But the real problem is all of these depend on the Republican Party wanting to win and understanding how power works, which I right, We're to be honest, no reason to expect that change. Obviously, you have the specific examples. You know I mentioned. You know this case in Indiana, which is egregious. You know this case in Virginia, the Save

Act over and over again. But these people don't understand how power works. And Sam Francis is beautiful. Losers has really never been more justified. It was interesting. You've seen a good bit of commentary after this. That's like jerrymandering. Changing the districts is wrong, no matter what. And even though I opposed this new amendment in Virginia, I oppose it just as much in Florida. And I'm glad the Indiana Republicans weren't successful. And look, man, that's a loser mentality, right,

because clearly your enemies don't have that compunction. They don't feel the same way. They may church it up a little bit and say this is what we needed to defeat Donald Trump. We understand how this works. Right, People don't voluntarily release power, at least they most often don't like that. I don't hold your breath on that account. So what are we doing here, guys? Right? What's the point of this Muldbug and many others and I realized his name is slightly dirty, is that the GOP really

isn't a real political party. It was Michael Anton and I found this out through bog beef Right had the the analogy of the Harlem Glowe Trotters and the Washington Generals. So for non Americans that Harlem Globe Trotters are like an exhibition basketball team. It's sort of like a stage. It's a staged game where guys do trick shots and you're dunk behind their back. And the dastardly Washington Generals

are the heels, right, they are there to lose. And it was very similar sort of situation in American politics that you know, you know that that basically they don't want to win. You see this in effect, they don't want to do something it would be nasty or and comfortable, or have them face any sort of negative social consequences. They despise it. Also, ultimately they share the same values as their opposition. Remember earlier I mentioned the fact that

you know, win some real series. The previous gubernatorial candidate was you know, a proud immigrant woman of color. If you don't care about that, if you're against identity politics, what why would you do that? It would be one thing hypothetically, of course, if she were an amazing candidate, she's well known, well loved, extremely accomplished, then you could at least say, well, they're color blind, right, they're consciously aware of you know, of the right quote unquote ethical

way to source for a job. But that's not the case. You know, she was a nice enough lady. She's probably perfectly pleasant, but not a good candidate, And so that leaves you with, well, why else? Right, was it deliberate sabotage? Quite possibly? Or was it that you believe that you're not legitimate, that you don't count as a real political force unless you can get majority support from minority groups, which I don't think. You make fun of the Democrats, right,

the DMC for playing that race card. So why are you doing it unless you actually believe it, unless you actually think that there's something to it. Also, we have to understand that the consequences are rationing up. This is a perfect example. The consequences of losing one election aren't just you know, you get a couple of bills you don't like. It's that you don't get to play the game. Right. They stack the field so that next time you're competing for one tenth of power instead of all of it.

Even if you win again, you're never in a position to truly win. That's a game over right. You have lost the game, not merely in an iterative sense, like you lost one hand, but now you don't have any cards or you have one card, right, you can't win. The stakes have gone up, and not just in a political sense of like do you get to be a political party anymore? But also do you go to jail? You guys have heard me mention this before, but the

stakes for National Republicans is extremely high. I don't like Donald Trump, I don't like Pete headset at all, but you would at least assume they're self interested, right, they want to stay out of jail. They don't want to be sent to the Hague, and seemingly there's no recognition of that fact. Right. Also, when we talk about this, we have to understand that the demogra tipping point is very, very real. Virginia has been transformed demographically in the last

twenty years, and that has transformed the state electorally. In fact, actually, weirdly enough, one of the reasons youngkin Wan is a particular education program that you really affected Asian voters, so they swung for him. And that shows you to what degree you know this kind of like tribal politics really matters.

I will say, even independent of my kind of detached analysis, which is what you've gotten most of here, I personally find it, shall we say offensive, We use a relatively kind word there, that someone whose family has been here for four hundred years, who was here before it was a country, is a foreigner, A guy from Bangladesh, you know, a woman from somewhere. I'm not entirely sure where a new lieutenant governor is from. Not here, not a real country.

It gets to tell me that, oh, this thing is a felony now that if I sell it, I'll go to jail. If I carry it in public because it has certain features even though I've been licensed to do so. Then I'll go to jail while reducing that, you know, the sentencing for murder or rape, or public drug use or outdoor what's the term that they use, public camping. That kind of burns me up. It burns many people up,

but as have to live with it. And I think it's important to say that even as I recognize the fact that my life would be better if that vote had gone a different way, well it's not. It's not my fault. I didn't make the Republicans so incompetent. I didn't make the Republicans of a previous era blind to the dangers of inviting in certain business interests, inviting in certain populations, encouraging emigration from the Northeast. But I will bear the consequences for that, And I think that's an

interesting thing to remember that, particularly young people. Younger people are more and more being forced to live with the consequences of their elders, whether that is the baby boomers. We can kind of crucify an effigy and not all. If you're listening to this, I don't mean you. But in the same way that things that were immediately beneficial, you know, welcoming large businesses and you know, welcoming the

right kind of immigrants or even the wrong kind. You know, in the short term, they made things cheaper, they brought in more taxes. Well, lives had consequences. And for those people who were out of politics now or as young Kin is right, in the consulting sector, there's not a problem for them. They're rich enough to insulate themselves from the consequences, and so for them, fighting hard is not really mandatory, you know, it doesn't hurt them in the

same way. But for people like us, for people like you, it really matters. And you see this I think perhaps most gutturally in the kind of trend stuff, because it's it's atavistic, right. It hits you in the brainstem. But that's real, there's a real consequence to that. I think of this story from a while back, this girl, say, I think, and she's from a rural part of the state, troubled parents were out of the picture, lived with her grandmother,

and I think appomatics Virginia. It definitely was. And she you know, was getting groomed online, had some kind of gender confusion stuff and her guidance counselor was legally protected to basically steal her right not tell her grandmother what was happening, hide that from her, and when she got a whif that she was being bullied, basically facilitated her kidnap right, got her transported to Maryland, which is a sanctuary state, and this minor ends up in I think

a halfway house right for delinquent youth, undergoes, you know, horrific abuse there obviously the people growing are on the internet, continuing to do so, and thankfully eventually ends up back

with her grandmother. But after being you know, horrifically abused, trafficked, kidnapped, and this is someone who you know admittedly was delta rough handed cards anyway, And so you look at that and you're like, okay, well that that legal framework, right, that ability to kidnap a child, that ability to keep them hidden from their family, like that really matters. And you know, if you're rich enough to afford private tutors or private schooling, maybe you're hit from that. You know,

maybe you don't have to bear that consequence. And so you know, our state is now a transanctuary state as well, wouldn't even had to kidnap, right, could have just had them drive, you know, to another district and that girl would have been hidden again from her family. Well, yeah, you can insulate yourself from that. Or if you're old enough you don't have kids. It doesn't matter to you.

You know, you got to enjoy the benefit of all of those immediate improvements to the GDP, immediate improvement to attack space or whatever. But the people who live here, people have been here for a long time, we do have to and so for us, the the consequences of losing are very, very high, and I think that's what makes it so galling to me. Like to me, I sort of look at this as you know, do you blame a scorpion for stinging you? No, it's what it does.

The Democrats, the Party of Foreigners, whatever you want to call them, are perhaps perfectly evolved for this. They're better at it. They are a better evolved predator for this game. And so why do you get mad? I mean I do get mad. I'm upset. I wish that something different had happened, But at the same time, you got out played. The answer isn't to get mad at them for being better. It's to look at it and say, okay, well, the

consequences are serious. You have to be better. You have to understand how power works, how to reinvest that back into the loop. You have to disregard the kind of winging and moaning of your enemies, because you've got to understand it's a zero something game. The only way they will like you is if you're no longer a threat. You see that with the kind of David French's in the attitude towards people like John McCain and George Bush.

Now that they're dead and gone, they're good. They represent a better time to the readers of the Prestige Press. But if you're causing problems, if you're dangerous, then you're a monster, of course, And so to be honest, in my mind, at least the top is hopeless. I've been talking for a long time. This whole woke right up.

And it is interesting that what I mentioned earlier in the gopiece amps an option piece that when the wheels start to fall off, when the magabase starts to fracture and losses start to pile up, they will blame the woke. Right Well, that's already happened. You have figures like Mike Cernovich coming out and saying, this is what happens when you're tired of Trump, right, when you turn your back

on Maga, this is what happens. It's all your fault. No, man, you've got that completely one hundred and eighty degrees wrong. You somewhat in power, the president, whoever pick your guy. You have lost the mandate of heaven. That's on you. I'm not a trader because you decided to give up and squander what remaining political capital you had on a stupid foreign adventure. I didn't do that. You did. And when you are doing unpopular things, why are you surprised

when you're unpopular? And when I say unpopular, I don't mean the kind of unpopular things that must be done. You know, for instance, they're on birthright citizenship or something like that. But I mean the sort of things that the people that elected you, your base, the people you need to keep being engaged, to keep playing the game. Well, when you put a thumb in their eye, why are you surprised when they don't show up? Politics is conditional. It's a quit pro quoe this for that if you will.

But also they've blamed the radicals, the woke right for scaring people off. Oh you cared too much about X, y Z, you were too Christian, you were too pro white, you were too pro family, whatever, you were too antiquay, and that's why you lost. This is all your fault.

And that I think that deliberate op, that deliberate slur will continue because MAGA is flintering, right, The wheels are falling off the train, and there is a dedicated effort by who I'm sort of eloquently calling the neo neocons, Lindsay Shapiro, Mark Levin, all these guys are Derbowitz to basically say, no, the reason this is happening isn't because of the problems with the economy, this kind of upcoming energy shock, the unpopular foreign war, the stalling of the

domestic agenda. The reason is, Oh, it's the populists. Oh it's the conspiracy theorists. Oh it's the woke Reich, the neo Nazis, all of those quotes. Of course, that's the problem. Now, never mind the fact that Trump was at his most popular when he was ruling like an executive, when he was smashing the deep state quote unquote, never mind that he was catapulted into power for his opposition to foreign wars,

his opposition to immigration. Well, what we really wanted all along and you just didn't know it is another meant ron me. And it's no surprise that's a loser political formula. It's no surprise that those people are trying to, you know, maintain their sort of kingdom of dirt, maintain a position

of prominence even in the designated losers. And what they've done is not only created this crisis, blamed the sort of active part of any sort of nominal right in America or these problems, but they've also cut off young men, cut off young people. I've mentioned over and over again the situation Heritage where there's sort of this witch hunt or gropers quote unquote, which doesn't really mean fans in nick one tests. It just means anyone to the right

of Miant Romney, of course. But they purged that institution. They are purging the college Republicans, young Republicans, and so this narrative has built up that you can't trust young people, that you need to get rid of them because they can't be trusted. They're gropers, they're you know, all these scare terms, right, and if we're looking at another instantiation of sabotage, that's it that any chances of making a multi generational movement. No, this dies with the boomers and

seemingly is what they want. Really, it dies with gen X, the most conservative voting block in America. But the suspicion towards younger people, the suspicion towards the people who, as I said earlier, have been forced to bear the negative externalities of this kind of chamber of commerce geography of nowhere style rule. Well, who does that leave you legitimate when you're running your chamber of commerce Republican diversity candidate, Well,

no young guys, certainly no minorities. So you're left with Fox News viewers, which is okay, it's a lot of people, but it's not enough for you to win at all, and it's certainly not enough for you to offset the fact that your voter base is dying. We hit what fifty baby bore mortality in twenty twenty thirty five, depending on who you ask, depending on how wide you cast

those It's like, what's the plan here? Because seemingly you're in a situation where you do not have the political will immediately to fix this, to stack the deck in your favor. Can't do that. You're alienating not just your current support base, but your support base going forward, the people who you would hope would offset that aging demographic.

And you're getting housed, just absolutely demolished, beaten pillar to post on the actual day to day politics, all while calling out the people who are unsure about this strategy as traders, where do we go here? And seemingly the answer is, uh, we don't care. Our true priority is somewhere else. Right, that's the whole point of this project. What was it, uh, Mark, what was it that Lindsay

Graham said? Right? My goal is to convince the young men of the young men and women excuse me, he's very inclusive, Lady Lindsey Graham, to go die in the Middle East. You know, they will defend Israel until our dying day. That seems to be the top priority. And okay, you can do that, but are you going to be a political force. Are you going to be able to rally any support whatsoever? I don't think so. And so yeah, unless that attitude goes away, that attitude of you know, conscientious,

lose done that radical preference for others over yours. This is a party of losers, and I don't blame anyone. Like I said, I wish the Republicans were in charge of my state now. It would make my life better. But if that attitude isn't there over a long enough time span, doesn't matter. It's just when you're losing. And sure, twenty years of runway is great. I certainly wish I had it. I would be in a better position at the end of it. But ultimately it's a rearguard action.

It's a losing one. But it could change. It may change. I hope it changes, but until then, I don't see it really mattering one way or another. But you know it's not all doom and gloom. Well I say that kind of is all doom and gloom, isn't it