Let's talk about how to understand House Republicans....
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Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
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Let's talk about how to understand House Republicans....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bo again. So today we're going to talk about how to interpret |
| 0:07.5 | the actions of the new house majority, how to look at what the Republicans are doing and try to make it make sense. |
| 0:19.4 | Because their actions shortly after taking control of the house from a |
| 0:24.7 | traditional political standpoint they don't make sense they're doubling down |
| 0:29.6 | on things that they know are unpopular and it's led to a lot of questions. |
| 0:35.0 | During the Trump administration, you know, I was asked after kind of predicting |
| 0:42.0 | Trump's moves, I was asked how I was able to do that. |
| 0:46.0 | It's because I stopped thinking about him as a Republican president and started thinking |
| 0:51.8 | about him as a fascist. |
| 0:54.2 | I didn't ask myself what would a Republican president do. |
| 0:56.8 | I asked myself what a fascist would do and it gave me better insight into his next moves. With this House majority, don't view them as normal |
| 1:09.9 | members of the House of Representatives. View them as social media |
| 1:16.0 | commentators. Edgy social media commentators. That's how you have to view them. If you look at them through that lens, |
| 1:25.0 | their actions are going to make a whole lot more sense. |
| 1:28.0 | We've talked about it on the channel repeatedly. |
| 1:32.0 | The Republican Party has fallen into its own echo |
| 1:34.9 | chamber. They believe that the most vocal voices on social media are |
| 1:41.9 | representative of their base, |
| 1:45.2 | despite all evidence to the contrary. |
| 1:50.0 | And that's how they're acting. |
| 1:51.8 | They're trying to get those likes, those shares on social media. |
| 1:58.7 | You want to know why they introduced not one but two things dealing with family planning |
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