Bill Kristol
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Now they can tolerate a pretty big tent here.
And the degree to which, are you finding this?
I'm getting like, people want to have meetings to say, to litigate.
various issues within the Democratic Party and the Democratic tent and the Democratic tent.
I'm a little bit of a state about it, honestly.
I mean, I've sort of wrote some slightly terse email back to someone wanting me to come to some meeting about this and how we have to, it's like, no, I have no interest in coming to this meeting, you know.
That was excellent.
So people should need to hop to it and listen to you on this.
No, I totally agree.
And winning the House would help โ would be the single most important thing to slow down and give us a chance to minimize the damage Trump could do in his last two years.
And winning the House and the Senate would really make a huge difference.
This is where I come back to the Senate.
The Senate confirms โ I mean โ
Both cabinet, obviously, nominees and subcabinet, but also justices, Supreme Court justices and also lower court judges.
So if you think what Trump's going to do in those last two years, if he has 51 Republicans in the Senate, he's going to jam through every judge he can who will uphold his policies and also uphold his attempt to seal the election in 2028 and uphold every Republican redistricting plan like the kind we've seen that happened.
are going to create no black members of Congress from southern states to 25% black population.
I mean, that's kind of important to stop that or to stop more of it from happening.
And that means winning the House and, say, even more, not even more, but in addition, but importantly in addition, winning the Senate if possible.
Maybe an ex-attorney general.
The Manchin-Kristen Sinema precedent is in that respect very bad because it's taught people how much power you have.