Alex Wagner

I mean, it's so awful.

I got to say, I thought Hakeem Jeffries did absolutely the right thing with speaking to my friend and former colleague Lawrence O'Donnell, you know, saying it's disgusting, saying it's racist, and then pivoting back to this is why we're in this fight and just going back to keeping the main thing the main thing.

But it is very hard to just let this pass and pivot to, you know, why Democrats are in this fight, because it's just appalling.

It's appalling.

Would you say, Dan, as a veteran of the Obama administration, that it's like a refashioning of the when they go low.

It's not that we go high.

It's like...

when they go low, we wipe the shit off of our feet.

I just don't even like, as we keep marching, I don't even know.

So many mixed metaphors, because it's not necessarily trying to be above it, but it's not accepting the invitation to descend, I guess.

Haley Barber.

You see now you're quoting him.

That's why I'm here.

No.

I mean, it sort of like toggles between

Orwellian McCarthyism and, like, metrosexual grooming conference.

Like, it was just like, at one point, the Secretary of Defense said, fat generals are a bad look.

And I was like, what?

At the same time, the President of the United States is like, and we're also waging war on half the country.

Like, we're just like, what the fuck was that?