Analysis of Southern Political Dynamics Post-Elections (Part 3)

When you do intervene, people are more ready to listen or it will get. You know, his theory of attention is sort of like the opposite of the theory of attention that people have been learning for the last however many years. Yeah, they should want more of you, not want less of you. Right, exactly that. Like, yeah, you should be maybe, like, a little bit coy. So Georgia, I mean, going plus 18 for the Democrats, going to the Democrats in the governorship. Texas, you also had. And these were not races that you were on the ground for, but I think you understood the night was gonna be something different. When the needle began swinging on South Carolina, oh, my God. For a while, I didn't believe that. I mean, that was healing. I was not ready to believe that. Mississippi, it looks like the Democrats are gonna win that seat. When I think of what is now different in American politics, it will be sustainably different. I'm not saying the south has realigned. People always talk about realignments. I think of this more as a de. Alignment. What has happened is the south has become unreliable. Now for the Republican Party, they have to defend it. Democrats are going to have an opportunity to say, this is what it is like when we govern Texas, when we govern Georgia, when, you know, you have a South Carolina senator, a Mississippi senator, and just the collapse of the Republican Southern wall. I mean, we never even called that the red wall, because you wouldn't even have really thought to attack it. But now the entire political map is. It's just a map again of states. Right. It's like, it's hard to even imagine. It's hard to even imagine what the 2028 presidential looks like if people are fighting in Texas, in Kansas, to say nothing of how the candidate recruitment goes. I mean, I think one thing the Democratic Party was not doing in the way you might have thought was really thinking about who do you recruit in South Carolina. You know, it ended up getting a great candidate. Candidate. But a lot of these were. Were people who stepped forward themselves. People who stepped forward themselves. I mean, the Scott column story in Mississippi is so interesting. Maybe it's worth saying for a minute how he ends up in this race because he could have had another job. Right. He was appointed to the federal bench by Joe Biden, and he is blocked by Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde Smith. And then he decides to challenge her in the election, and now he's beat her for her Senate seat. We think, we think, we think, we think. But, yeah, what does it mean that the south has fallen for the Republic? So, I mean, look, obviously in some ways. I think we're still metabolizing this because it's just. I can't think of another time when, like.