Well, I want to thank you all very much.

This is great.

These are our friends.

We have thousands of friends on this incredible movement.

This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.

And frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

There's never been anything like this in this country and maybe be able.

It's Thursday, November 7th, 2024, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical

concerns. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I'll be your moderator today.

I'm pleased to report that I'm joined by our full complement of Goodfellows as we jokingly refer to them.

That would include the historian Sir Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran,

and former Presidential national security advisor,

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. And we're also joined today by New York Times opinion

column is Brett Stevens. Brett, thanks for coming on the show. Thanks for having me back.

First, let's talk about the election in America. As we record this show on Thursday morning,

Donald Trump has collected 312 electoral votes.

That's the most by a Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988. He won a majority of the popular vote.

The first time that's happened since 2004 for a Republican. He has the Senate in his pocket.

He's on a path to get the House under Republican control.

And consider this, Trump having won the popular vote, having both branches of Congress, we think.

Republicans having a majority of state legislatures around America and a majority of Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump and George W. Bush.

The last President President America to have

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