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So, as you probably heard by now, Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on our country's

job numbers, our employment numbers. He says they're rigged, and he fired the Commissioner of Labor

Statistics, and the whole Republican Party is falling in line behind this lie.

What I want to show you today is how we got here.

We got here because Republican politicians and a lot of voters understood that Trump was delusional about the 2020 election.

He said it was rigged and stolen. And they thought that

that delusion could be compartmentalized, meaning it was a one-off. It didn't really matter. And that he

could still function rationally as president. And they were wrong. A man who is delusional about a rigged election is also going to be

delusional about everything else being rigged. Let me take you back to last year. Throughout the

2024 campaign, Trump insisted that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. And a lot of voters decided that this delusion about the

stolen election didn't really matter. Let me show you what I mean. This is the AP Votecast survey of people

who actually voted in 2024. It's like an exit poll. Sixty-five percent of voters said Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, which means they knew

that when Trump said the election was rigged, he was wrong. But more than a quarter of those voters

voted for Trump anyway in 2024. They knew that he was lying or diluted, but they thought that was okay. So those voters,

that quarter of the 65%, basically one sixth of the electorate, made the difference in 24.

They were betting that Trump's crazy talk about the rigged election was just a one-off.

So those voters put Trump back in the White

House. And maybe they thought he'd leave his fantasy about the rigged election in the past.

He did not. In fact, he took his re-election in 2024 as confirmation that he was right about

the rigged election in 2020, and he became even more obsessed.

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