Hi folks, this is Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

Hi, I'm Molly Changfast, novelist and editor at large at the Daily Beast and the person

who tells Rep not to tweet the things he wants to tweet.

I'm an editor at large at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best

selling author and full-time troublemaker.

The new abnormal is about one nation under a pandemic and how it's changing all of us.

We'll talk about what's happening in the country and the culture and look at good and

bad people, leadership and ideas.

Molly and I come from very different political worlds, but what brings us together is that

we both love America and we realize that putting our country over party and ideas over ideology

might be the only thing that gets us through this.

We'll be joined by smart guests from politics, media, culture, medicine and science.

I'll also try to keep Rick to the minimum number of curse words and try to keep our pets

and other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

Molly, don't you think part of this is just that Trump always likes to have a bad guy.

He always likes to have an enemy.

He always likes to have somebody that he can point at.

But Trump wants his base to have a monster without a face in some ways.

He wants it to be some sort of idea that it's socialism or it's...

This squad.

Or the squad or Islam or caravan or something like that.

That's where he gets super comfortable in sort of revving up all this completely lunatic

...