Hello and thank God I've got Amanda Carpenter here today I'm gonna need her she's a writer and editor at

Protect Democracy across partisan groups dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat she used to be my colleague here at the Bulwark.

She's also the co-author of Protect Democracy's Report,

the authoritarian playbook for 2025,

that looks at Project 2025.

So we're going to talk about that quite a bit.

But, you know, I think we've got to talk about the press conference first.

How you doing, Amanda?

I'm doing pretty well.

I think it's more important to see how you're doing this morning after watching the press

conference. Not great. I have to say. see how you're doing this morning after watching the press conference?

Not great. I have to say, I know that this is supposed to be the place where we kind of

remind each other that we're not the crazy ones to borrow a phrase, but I feel like I'm

losing my

my fucking mind.

Just with the response to that press conference

last night, I feel like I'm losing my mind.

And, you know, so maybe you can be in my bulwark my anchor that brings me back to

sanity today so let's just start first with what were your big picture

impressions well you know listen to it without getting into all the questions about his.

No need to do the figure skating judging side of things just fundamentally.

How do you think his message was?

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