Welcome to Democracy-ish.

I'm exhausted and I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm Wajatali and I'm exhausted and I look like Daniel's uncle.

I look like a 72-year-old man that she just brought from Karachi and said like, sit here and do this podcast with me.

We're folks right before we press live, Daniel was like, I have aged.

I felt like that Titanic meme that she says, you know, it's been 80 years.

And it's only been 10 months.

And all of this could have been avoided. All of it could have been avoided. And I was talking to Danielle, right before we press record, I'm like, Daniel, do they still think that we're crazy? And the reason why I asked her that, Daniel, is we've been doing this for three and a half years. And, you know, people accused us having Trump trump derangement syndrome a lot of people who are

moderate a lot of people who are just fellow americans family members watch no it'll be fine the center

will hold the institution will be okay there are guardrails it it'll be okay and then i said it won't be

okay you don't understand what these people are capable of. I spent the last 10 years studying them, following them. You just don't understand how complicit corporations will be, how the institutions are weak, how the establishment will buckle. And now we're 10 months in, Daniel, and I, you know, I've said this a lot, and I feel like it's, I get no joy from I told you so.

Like, there's none. No. No, I, I think that I have never wanted to be more wrong than, and would be

happy to have been proven wrong over the last several months that we were being hysterical.

Look, it's just this more of the same of the first administration, but it's not.

It's wildly different.

It's wildly dangerous.

These people are sociopathic.

They are also idiots, which I think you can't probably get a more dangerous combination of cruel and stupid than you see right now.

And on top of it, we start out today, folks.

And I think that like, again, people wanted to shrug off Bannon for, for a while and say like, oh, you know,

Bannon, he's just crazy, this, that, and the other thing.

And he is the architect.

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