Good evening and welcome and happy anniversary.

Tonight is the one-year anniversary of Trump's second election to the presidency.

It was a year ago tonight that Donald Trump not only won, but won a majority of the popular vote.

And not only one a majority of the popular vote, but won with a coalition that was broader than any Republican coalition, probably since

1984 with the Reagan landslide. So a 40-year coalition. And at the time, looking at not just how

many people voted, but who voted, it seemed really obvious if you were interested in keeping

the left at bay and the Republicans in power for, say,

the next generation or two, you would copy exactly what Donald Trump did because no one else

has done it in 40 years. He created this amazing, not just landslide, not really a landslide,

but it was an amazing victory in an environment in which most people

assumed you couldn't have an authoritative victory because the country is just too closely divided.

So it was an amazing thing that Donald Trump did a year ago.

So the election was a year ago.

That means the midterm election is a year from now, in the next presidential election, two years after that.

So it's probably not too early to start thinking through what comes after Donald Trump.

No respect to the sitting, disrespect to the sitting president, but of course,

there's going to be something after him because he can't run again.

And it leads to say people are thinking about that and not only are they thinking

about it, they're already arguing and fighting about it. There is what Politico is calling a civil war in

the Republican Party. And it's over, of course, identity, because the only wars we have in this country,

the only sanctioned wars we have domestically are about identity.

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