This is a headgum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say

and that's all right that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello and welcome to Factually. I'm Adam Conover. Thank you so much for joining me again.

You know, we have all different types of folks who listen to this podcast and watch on YouTube people from all different walks of life I'm very proud of that

But I'm gonna hazard a guess that if you're listening or watching right now

You're probably not a hard right winger right

gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're not a

phiocratic conservative you're not one of those people who's trying to kick the

trans kids out of the bathroom I've been doing this for a little while and I know

my audience.

Now for those of us who are not those people who are not on the far right of political discourse

in this country, it's really easy to caricature those who are.

The far right can make for easy comedy, you know, they're outlandish, cartoonish, and bizarre,

make fun of Lauren Bobert for you know grabbing the guy during the Beatlesju show.

It's funny, but it's often a real mistake to do that because right

wingers are in fact real people and understanding how they think what their

influences are what their influences are, what their principles are, why they do what they do, and why it seems rational from their perspective.

Well, that's very important, and we make a mistake when we do not treat them with that level of frankly respect.

Take Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for instance. He's really easy to caricature.

I've done it myself. You can talk about him as a cranky corrupt old man. He doesn't even bother to ask questions. He just always votes on the side of the people who want to erode some basic right or take rights away from people who've had them for a century.

But that's an enormous mistake.

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