Welcome to Democracy-ish. I am Danielle Moody, back with our friend Wachahat Ali, writer for the Daily Beast, and author of the new book,

go back to where you came from.

Woj, what a year.

What a year we have had.

This is our year-end reflection show.

And I want to start off with one of our friends, one of our colleagues in the Twitter

via, if we will, Twitterverse, tweeted at us mentioning the both of us and a friend of ours

with regard to watching once again folks that were a part of the Trump administration be rewarded for

their complicity in the destruction of our democracy by being rewarded with hosting gigs,

new shows, money, right? And fame. Yep.

And our friend tweeted and said,

but patriots like Wage and Danielle and our friend Elie Mistel over at the nation,

get nothing.

Why do you do what you do?

Like why do we all keep doing what it is that we do when we, when what Kurt said, Kurt Bardela said is true. We get nothing. Because we're massacists. We're

massacists who love, who love pain and love our country. He's referring to Alyssa Farah, who was the

former director of strategic communication in the Trump White House,

who then, like most of these people, quit when it was opportunistic, and now all of a sudden is a resistor.

And she was rewarded for her complicity, just like Miles Taylor, by the way, who was formerly anonymous, by getting a plum gig at CNN.

And by the way, you know who else was also rewarded Chris Christie at ABC with the plum job?

And he got every single adulation and spot at the networks to promote his book that only sold 2,000 copies.

Which I'm assuming he bought himself, by the way.

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