Yes, God, God. So welcome to the

to the plodcast this is episode 3 28 I'm Douglas Wilson and you are presumably who you are. So welcome, good to have you.

So I want to talk a little bit about the presidential campaign that we're in the middle of,

and I want to talk about certain informal indicators, shall we say, informal

indicators. We have the formal indicators and then there are the informal indicators.

I'm going to begin with the informal that I'm talking about.

As I'm recording this, Trump has just come away from a very successful rally in a very deep blue state. That deep blue state is

New Jersey and he had this rally that attracted somewhere north of 100,000 people, somewhere north of 100,000 people.

Then you read about Biden rallies, and they can't even be called rallies.

Biden shuffles in onto the stage and there are a handful of people there and it

basically the Biden candidacy appears to be a charisma hole, and regardless of whether you're

going to vote for him or not, regardless of what you think of him, the Trump rallies are a major energy blast.

And this is something that any observer should be able to tell,

it should be able to see without approval or disapproval of a person's politics.

Biden has no mojo at all.

Trump has a ton of it and Obama had a ton of it. So this is not, oh I'm going to say that

the Republican is the mojo and the Democrat doesn't regardless. No, no, Obama had it. There was a

Obama could fill a stadium and it appears that Biden can't fill a mid-sized

auditorium.

So something is happening here.

Now, let me give you an illustration.

Suppose you lived in a mid-sized town and a new restaurant opened up and a

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