And now for a moment of clarity.

What happens is Trump makes a claim, and then there's this massive right-wing media narrative

engine behind him that backfills it and turns it into reality for a very large part of

the American population and his base.

And that engine is not doing that right now.

What they're doing is just sort of fracturing over gas prices, over how it's going to affect farmers, how it's going to affect their home issues. And of course, the fact that they thought they were being sold, no wars, not new wars. And so that means it that they can't just get out there and make these claims to do it. So what does that mean in practice? One, he doesn't have the thing backing him up. So these numbers are going to get worse, not better. Two, there's a real opportunity for Democrats to actually break through and actually project a narrative because that engine does want things to spin. Now, they may not carry water for Democrats, but they'll certainly carry water for the storyline around the economy.

And there's a warning. So even if that's not enough of an incentive to do it, there's an odd thing to avoid. He's putting little poison pills out there to try to pull people back in. When he says he's not going to sign legislation, he's starting to say, well, let's start going up to trans people again. The right-wing media is slowly starting to consolidate around this narrative that, look, maybe the Iran war actually means more deportations.

We can target mass populations of Muslims in this country.

And that's starting to simmer that down a little bit.

He's beginning to inject the SAVE Act into the conversation.

So he's trying to poke around to say, is there something new that can help people reconnect?

So that's the moment to drive forward, not just that there's a big opportunity, and there is.

There's actually an urgency to it because eventually they will find their footing.

Yeah, Senator, I think, you know, Angelo makes a great point there.

And it's a concerning one from where I'm sitting because basically you're watching real time.

This guy spin us into more BS and just spin up as much as he can and just whip it in such a way that you can't.

It's like, you know, that scene at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz when the tornado hits and the house comes out, comes on ward and it's flying and you see all this debris and everything's flying around.

But in the center of that is this house where, you know, Dorothy, presumably he's just lying

there on the floor watching the whole thing go by.

That's kind of where it is for a lot of Americans, where they're sitting inside of this bubble,

watching all this stuff whirl around them, and the messaging becomes important.

And to your initial point to Alicia's question,

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