by successfully exploiting a key division among Americans, those who are for the system and those who are against it, broadly put.

President-elect managed to build a narrow majority with what you might call an anti-system coalition.

People who are angry at our government, resentful of our institutions because they feel they have been failed by them. And lots of people feel that for very good reason. And now he has chosen

perhaps the most high profile figure in the anti-system world for a top job in his cabinet.

Of course, I'm talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That's Trump's new pick for Secretary of

Department of Health and Human Services.

Yeah, going back to your first question. It's not just that these people are not qualified enough.

It's not just that they're totally unqualified. It's that they're anti-qualified. They're qualified to do the opposite of the thing that they're supposed to do.

Tulsi Gabbard is talking in a moment when Russian forces are approaching the Ukrainian capital,

when Russian assassination squads are attempting to kill the Ukrainian head of state.

And she's advising people that all we have to do is summon up a magic word and then affect surrender all of

Ukraine to Russia. It's an extraordinary thing to be doing. And it's not naive. It sounds naive,

but it's not. It's what it's doing is trying to prepare the way for more Ukrainian suffering.

It's what it is saying, he who invades is right. Well, first we have to confront something that's really important because we always talk about this with the kind of the assumption that if we build it, they will come, right?

That if only there were local newspapers again, if only the local newscasts were on, what we're missing here is that a large chunk of the fault here just lies with

the American public. We are now a leisure society. We take in huge amounts of entertainment.

We take in, you know, petabytes of information, you know, over the course of weeks and months that we

simply can't process. Our tolerance

for boredom, for nuance, for detail is almost zero. And this is what I wrote about in the

death of expertise, that people, they don't really want to read news stories. You know, there was a,

I was on a panel once with some, with Dan Balls from

the Washington Post, and someone said, you should write more explainers and very, you know,

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