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Discussion on right-wing activism and election dynamics (Part 2)

Discussion on right-wing activism and election dynamics (Part 2)

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Community organizer. Those kind of things. Like Barack Obama was a community organizer like that. Oh yeah, they definitely plugged the SEIU into the whole network decades ago. And they also had the federal government helping fund that with. They did. And all of that. They did, yeah. They understand financial leverage. That's not, that's not happening in the us. I mean whether, whether it be the National Lawyers Guild to protect the, the, the activists if they get out of hand or if you're dealing with the, you know, the on the ground promote protest stuff, like every protest always has nicely made signs that are pre, you know, made up and they're handed out. That kind of activism. The right does not have what. When you say we have six months, what to do what. Exactly. So if you think about what we're. Let's just say JD's the candidate. Somehow miraculously he overcomes the fact that Israel hates him and that he probably won't raise the Miriam Adelson money and he'll have to use big tech money instead or whatever. And somehow they keep from shiving him and shoving Rubio in. Cuz that's what everybody around Trump wants. Again, he's the polling frontrunner and he's the only one that I've talked to who I think is a genuine economic populist, which I think is an imperative at this point. The right will not win without anybody who can talk about that with authenticity. Now he's always been doing well in the polls. His net approval is 10 points better than Trump. There is a shot. But what we're asking of him isn't to run as a president in a tough cycle. We're asking him to challenge an extremely well funded organization that he's going to have to take over that wants to fight him with every fiber of its being and realizes that if he gets his way and gets political power and governs for the people that their gravy train is over. So how do you do that? Is he going to build this whole thing himself? Who's his team going to be? How's he going to keep it from being co? Opted? How's he going to run it with people outside of dc? Like there's a lot of questions. Your point of the. How's he going to keep it from being co opted? There aren't as many true believers on the right as there are on the left. Right. Like they're like people on the right. They're like battered wife. Yeah, like your point. Like people on the right that should be doing things with the money that's donated to try to help get the candidate elected. They're just shoving it in their pocket. Here's the problem, though. The people. Think about how many people went to Trump rallies in the last 10 years. There was never a resume stand there. And what Trump said instead is, don't know, don't worry. Sit down. You don't have to do anything. I got this for you. And then it was a.
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