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Miller.com to find out how. Let's talk to our friend Stephen

Beschloss, author of America, America. Yeah. You're not stuttering. He says it twice on purpose.

Hi. Hi. Times I might have to add a couple more Americas just to underscore the necessity of its

survival. Writer political journalist extraordinaire. I mean, Stephen, so to your point, I love how this last piece you wrote, not today,

he already read that too, but you said, remember, Donald Trump wants us to be demoralized.

He wants to fuel conflict and outrage.

He wants to push the boundaries as far as he can, not only to see what he can get away

with, but to throw Congress on the country off balance

or even into chaos to strengthen his own position. In his war provision, he relies on the ruins of others.

And that's where I think it starts with saying this is not a mandate. This is, you know, 49-50%.

That's where it starts for them to make you feel demoralized right and defeated and like you're

the one that's out of touch and you're just overwhelmed and they're the vast majority of people

you know disagree with you right right and look a win in this case a win is a win we have to live

with that but but let's not pretend that it's a mandate.

Let's not pretend that it's a landslide.

Let's not pretend that this is a normal administration that we should respond to normally.

I mean, I think it's already worrisome that this early, 63 days before January 20th inauguration, that there's so many people who are already

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