I'm thrilled at today's guest. He's a return guest. I'm thrilled he's here because his

voice is so right for the times. Congressman Richie Torres, the 15th district in the Bronx,

is a man of reason, thought, and grace. And thank you for being with us, Congressman.

It's an honor to be here.

So I quoted you last week in one of my podcasts.

And right after the election, I'm going to read a direct quote from you.

Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left,

which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, blacks, Asians, and Jews

from the Democratic Party with absurdities like to to fund the police from the river to the sea

or Latin X. There is more to lose than more to gain than what there is to gain politically

from pandering to a far left that is more representative on Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok

than the real world. The Democratic added, the Democrat added, the working class is not buying

the ivory tower nonsense the far left is selling. Amen. I mean, you really nailed it. I'm curious

what the reaction has been to that. Look, I feel like I'm saying what many people are thinking,

but are too afraid to say. Yeah. You know, it's just like the center right lives in fear of the far right in the

Republican Party, the center left lives in fear of the far left in the Democratic Party. And I'm

simply stating political reality that the majority of Americans are in the center. That's not a

statement of personal policy preference. That's a statement of political reality.

And when Republicans swung the pendulum too far to the right on abortion,

the Republicans paid a price in the 2022 congressional midterps.

Their red wave was reduced to nothing more than a trickle.

But if we swing the pendulum too far to the left,

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