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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
0:05.0 | What do people who oppose him do about it? |
0:10.0 | He has an impressive skill set when it comes to communicating this and getting people on board with him. |
0:18.0 | He is the P.T. Barnum of American politics. |
0:21.7 | There's been no one else like him. |
0:24.6 | And everything that goes with P.T. Barnum, everything that we know about the attractiveness of what he was able to do, |
0:31.6 | how he distracted people from the, you know, the ho-humness of their lives by creating this grand circus, these great |
0:39.6 | three rings that you can come and, you know, have this suspension of disbelief and watching |
0:45.8 | people on the high wire and watching lions and tigers and bears, oh my, right? |
0:50.7 | There's this great distraction. |
0:54.6 | But then what is the substance? |
0:55.7 | We saw this eight years ago. We saw this eight years ago. |
0:57.9 | We know what it is. |
1:00.1 | The question is he won again, and he won again with, you know, winning all battleground states. |
1:09.0 | Every battleground state, just like he said. That's true. |
1:12.1 | But there was nothing intervening to break that suspension of disbelief that that would deal with |
1:18.4 | the reality of the American people as they saw it. Donald Trump speaks to a reality as you see it. |
1:25.7 | That's why you have people saying, I like him because he's just like me. |
1:29.8 | You know, they don't have, they don't live in a gilded apartment on Fifth Avenue. They don't have |
1:35.4 | a Mar-a-Lago. They don't have golden toilet seats. But they do, they do have this connection to |
1:41.8 | him that's real for them. And he talks to that. But then where do they |
1:46.0 | derive the benefit? You know, in that video, what did you hear people still talking about? Hope? |
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