Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Hey guys, it's been a bit since we've done a back and forth discussion episode by

I know you guys.

Hungry for it. So we're back, excited to do these, especially going into 2023.

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Saga and I are talking about this week. We know people are obviously hurting with the

Wazai vibe session to use Kyla Scanlon's helpful discourse for it. So no worries if you can't

afford it, but if you can't support the show, we'd really appreciate it.

Saga, let's just dive into the news and then take some of the Q&A that folks sent in

after the midterms. Let's start with the obvious Trump announcement. What is your instant

reaction to what happened? I thought it was boring, which was really surprising to me.

But something I can, well, A, let's start with this. Never count Trump out ever all the

way up until the actual votes are counted. And then maybe you're not afterwards. Number

two, I actually am increasingly believing that the Trump announcement while it was boring

accomplished what it needed to accomplish. So one of the problems for Trump coming out

of the midterms obviously was what? That the people wholesale rejected, stop the steel,

MAGA candidates without Trump and then abortion. And so the Trump speech is the most I've

ever seen him adhere to a proctor. It did not mention stop the steel one time, not once.

He made vague, vague appeals to like voter ID and only paper ballots, but whatever. Okay,

people are like, that's not, no, it's generic.

Ever Republican, it's gonna say that's not one.

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