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Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Buck Sexton Show.

We are joined by our friend Pedro Gonzalez.

He has an amazing substack.

You should definitely subscribe. Check it out. Contra. And he's also a writer, a columnist at Chronicles

magazine. Pedro, good to have you on, sir. Buck, so good to be here. Thanks for having me.

The Republican Party right now. What does it need in terms of a

kick in the ass to actually do the things that it says it's going to do I find

myself in a position where if someone were to ask me what is the purpose of the

Republican Party it feels like a lot of days I would just have to say to not be the

Democrat Party what do you think how's it going well that feels like a lot of days I would just have to say to not be the Democrat party. What do you

think? How's it going? Well, that sounds like a tall order, Buck. Don't be the Democrats. Well,

it seems like they're always trying to outflank them to some degree, even when you think the GOP's

making progress. And I think it is, right? We have to acknowledge progress where it happens. And

obviously, if you follow me on Twitter, I thought it was progress when 20 Republicans

stood up to Kevin McCarthy and tried to get concessions out of him that were meaningful.

I thought that was progress.

But then you check the headlines, you check the stories that are coming out day after day,

and it really just seems like it's a revert to the norm, which is, as someone said, the GOP is just

the Democratic Party driving the speed limit.

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