Well, another week, another assassination attempt, apparently, in the United States of America.

That's what it's come to.

Sad to see.

This is a country where this would have been

even major defining news for the trajectory of an election.

And yet where we are is that has become in some ways I'm sad to say in America

ever so slightly normalized and that's what worried me most about what happened on

Sunday is as as tragic as it was that there was a second attempted assassination

on President Trump and attempt on his life in the same summer.

The first time, let alone the fact that they I already escaped the news cycle a month later

the second time it was just considered another blip in a new cycle as well and I'm not

here criticizing the media for that necessarily but I am reflecting on where we are as a country

we're skating on thin ice. The fact that this is not as shocking as it ought to be in

normal times tells us exactly what's at stake for the future of the country and

you know I have deep concerns I think that they're going to be

troubling times between now and November I hope we get through it stronger on the other side.

But to talk about the election in particular, we had arranged this long before even the news of this past Sunday,

but it made it all the more timely. I've invited a guy who's become a friend and an intellectual counterpart in the last year,

Kurt Mills, who is, among other things, leading the American Conservative. So,

Kurt, welcome to the podcast and I'm excited to have the conversation with you.

Thanks for having me, yeah. So, you know, just for the benefit of our audience who may not know you,

I think they should, but for those who don't just

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