Brett Cooper

And that kind of unity and genuine joy, not the fake Kamala joy, but the genuine joy is what, in my opinion, like emotionally pushed Trump over the finish line for so many voters in 2024.

And then a year later, here I am feeling demoralized and disheartened watching CPAC unfold online, looking like a red, white, and blue Barbie Dreamfest.

Meanwhile, at the exact same time, this is what the No Kings protests looked like across America.

And I know that we have made a lot of jokes about the No Kings protest from earlier this year.

The geriatric women, you know, dressed like fricking tacos dancing in the streets.

The people in wheelchairs rolling out of their assisted living facilities to come protest on the streets.

But like, I don't know what they did, but they pulled it together.

They pulled it together and while CPAC was dwindling, they were literally roaring in the streets.

Now granted, I'm sure that a lot of them are still MSNBC boomers, but we cannot write off millions of people taking to the streets.

And so I'm watching all this unfold and I'd love to sit here and go, okay guys, well, we gotta fight back.

Let's mobilize.

Let's, you know, focus on the midterms.

We gotta elect great people.

We gotta push through Trump's agenda.

All of that, we need to elect amazing people.

But we did that.

We did that in 2024 when Trump won.

That meant the Republicans, this new movement of conservatives had the presidency, the House, the Senate.

We had a conservative majority in the Supreme Court.

And what have they gotten done?