Alex Wagner

I found the whole thing incredibly disturbing, Dan.

I'm a former weekend anchor, so let's not malign the entire category, but I like to think my work is better.

Well, I mean, I'm a shoo-in for the next administration as Secretary of War.

Let's just be clear.

I mean, to have the audacity to tell a room full of generals in military dress, fat generals are a bad look, who the fuck does Pete Hegsa think he is?

You and me, for sure.

I mean, this is not OK.

This is the language.

This is the stuff that really needs to disturb everyone.

I mean, this is like, I mean, they're not even keeping a secret.

They're completely unconstitutional people.

strategy here to launch a kind of like semi-civil war against blue cities and states, universities that are seen as bastions of liberalism.

I mean, it's war against our own people and announced by the president of the United States at Quantico in front of a room of, what is it, 800 top military brass.

This is a very alarming set of statements that he made.

And it like there was a high degree of concern and outrage when President Trump talked about vermin and adopted the rhetoric of, you know, some of the worst autocrats and dictators of the 20th century to be using this language again and to be targeting Americans in a military setting as Trump is ordering federal troops to cities, you know, across the country like this.

we're in this, we're in this, you know, we find ourselves constantly in this state of panic about so many things that Trump does, but this seems to be actually his raison d'etre.

Like, I think there's just such a desire to punish and own those who disagree with him in the most acute and perverted fashion.

And he's here announcing that and doubling down on it.

And, um,

Yeah, I don't know what the right expression was, but it's like the culmination of something conservatives have been obsessed with, I think, since they first sort of felt the rising tide of liberalism in the 1960s and 40s, actually.