Bill, the election, what happened?

So a number of things happened, Dave.

And I think that it, that we have to recognize that Trump, very much like John Gotti, the former and late leader of one of the five families of the mafia, was a charismatic figure

who was a bad boy and that this was attractive to many people who were angry.

So that's one of the factors.

A second thing is Harris was running against inflation.

And one of the things that's important to note is that no standing president, or in this

case, vice president, who has been running when there was inflation, won a second term.

And it's very hard.

Now, I think, and I was surprised by this, that Biden and Harris did not make more of what was going on four years ago.

You know, when Trump said, are you better off now than you were four years ago, and he thought he painted the answer as an obvious yes, I don't think the answer

was an obvious yes at all. Because four years ago, what was going on? Thousands of people were

getting sick and dying from COVID and the economy collapsed,

which is largely why Bunk did not get reelected. Duh. Right? Well, why weren't they

making that point? I was mystified by that thing. I just don't understand it. Now, the other thing that was going on

is that the Trump base, I don't mean just the occasional voter or someone who's confused,

the core of the base is driven by revanchism, the politics of revenge, resentment, and warning back what you believe

was taken from you. It was driven by racism and a high degree of misogyny. I was on an interview

earlier today where someone said she didn't know whether a woman would ever be elected president of the

United States in her lifetime. Because the level of misogyny, we got to understand that there's

men and women that simply do not believe that a woman can be the president of the United States.

But you add on to that, the deep hatred of women

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