Welcome to Democracy-ish. I am Danielle Moody.

And I am with Jahat Ali.

And Wajahat, you have brought to us once again a fabulous guest that I'm going to give you the wonderful honor

of introducing so that we can jump in and talk about our crumbling country.

Trolls get ready, start salivating.

We have Rick Wilson, a political strategist, author of the bestselling book,

Running Against the Devil, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and he's currently joining us

from the Gilead of North Florida, where he hopes to be the Mad Max warlord of a small

blue dot, an increasingly nutty state run by our potential future authoritarian president

Ron DeSantis. I think that summarizes it pretty well, man. First of all, I'm happy to be here.

Second off, we're building the concertina wire barriers and tooling up for the great

zombie apocalypse to come.

Yeah, yeah, it's zombie.

Waterworld, I think right before we were recording, Daniel gave, you know, I gave the Mad Max analogy,

and then Daniel came in with World War

Z and Waterworld, just to give a shout out to climate change.

And COVID.

We might as well just, we might as well go for Armageddon also.

Right.

Just to bring in the space meteor from the, this, the meteor of death.

Look, Rick.

Just don't look up.

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