Exhausted AF But, Still, We Persist (and Resist)
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week's Elephant in the Room is exhaustion. You're feeling it, we're feeling it, and Trump and his administration are feeling it. Trump is falling asleep during meetings, and for his staffers, living in fear is draining. Overthrowing a democracy consumes a lot of energy from all sides. We knew another Trump term would mean another serious bout of adrenal fatigue, but this time, the array of high-stakes, stressful headlines is on another level.
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:02.5 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt. |
| 0:06.2 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:09.9 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:14.5 | Good night. |
| 0:15.7 | And good luck. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey, folks, it's right. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the elephant in the room. |
| 0:22.1 | And this week's elephant in the room, |
| 0:23.4 | it's exhaustion. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm in Boston today. I am on a seemingly endless journey across these great states of ours in this beautiful republic. One more day here and then I get to go home. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm really excited about it. I am. By the time you're seeing this, I will be hopefully home. |
| 0:50.3 | It's been a minute. I've been back for a day or two here and there, but it's been almost a month on the road. I want to talk about the elephant in the room today, and that's fatigue. |
| 0:55.5 | I know a lot of you are tired. |
| 0:58.4 | I know a lot of you feel like nothing stops the parade of crap. |
| 1:05.6 | Nothing stops the catalog of terrors and horrors. |
| 1:10.1 | Nothing stops the bad people from doing the bad things that they want to do as part of their terrible, dark, evil plan for this country. |
| 1:18.2 | I want to say this very clearly. |
| 1:23.0 | I am a friend to fatigue. |
| 1:25.4 | I am a friend to exhaustion. |
| 1:28.4 | I go really hard. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm 61 years old. |
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