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Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele

podcast. I'm having a wonderful conversation with my new friend

Tina Wendt.

We've been working this journey together and didn't even know it.

And different spaces in time.

So Tina, before we went to break, we were talking about you, you were in the book you talk about how people

already ask you, you know, you know, why you cover the far right instead of the far left.

And your first answer was, you know, because the left is incompetent.

And the second part of your answer, which I think is really applicable at this hour as we're getting ready to go into the

20-24 cycle. You say the second answer is that sometimes I don't think the left or even people

who consider themselves centrist, center right, or even a regular card-carrying Republican who's wondering

why everyone went batshit over the last five years,

understands even now the scale or geography of the mountain that's in their way.

I'd even go so far as to mix metaphors and say it's a mountain that's also a perfectly calibrated

Rube Goldberg machine a bit too elaborately constructed with hundreds if not thousands of different pieces that need to be placed just so in order to achieve a specific outcome.

That is so true, You know, this idea that the left sees the mountain and their view is, well,

we just go right through it or somehow would just magically

disappear. We're gonna let we're gonna tell the mountain a really strong story and

everyone will change their minds and go, oh, I was wrong the entire time.

Here you go.

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