We want to just be with the people that we love and not just be sort of like replicating

Twitter conversations at dinner tables. And I think the only way through that is not to, again,

sort of like pretend like we don't disagree on plenty of things. We are a very divided country,

but to spend more time rebuilding the muscle of listening, rebuild the muscle of curiosity. Those are muscles

that have atrophied. And I think if we don't hear that exhaustion in people, we are going to

continue the same mood of politics that no longer resonates. It resonated just in a very different

way in the very different moment that was 2018 when we thought Trump

was an aberration.

We were angry about him.

We thought he'd go away.

And here we are all these years later's.

And he has taken over the entire Republican Party and now our country.

Hello. Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

It's a tough time to be a moral, empathetic, patriotic American. It's heartbreaking to watch the cruelty and lawlessness on display, from ice officer raids to

murders in the Caribbean. I'm not sure if you caught that cabinet meeting the other day,

with all the absurd, sycophantic bootlicking, but it was hard to watch. Did you know that blowing up

10 boats filled with random people, Donald Trump saved 100 million lives? Well, according to his cabinet he did.

Because apparently, one third of the American population is overdosing on cocaine. But by destroying

a handful of small outboard motor vehicles, Donald Trump became our hero. We just have to ignore the

fact that he pardoned actual proven narco-terrorists, one serving 45 years

and the other serving two consecutive life sentences without a second thought.

Nothing makes sense anymore. And it's hard to get your head around, which is why we have to keep

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