Charles Duhigg

He does not couch his positions to pander to the crowd.

He speaks whatever seems to be at the top of his mind, which sometimes is nonsense.

He's an authentic liar.

Yeah.

Exactly.

That's performance.

It's performance.

It's performance.

And this authenticity, though, is really important.

You mentioned before the graphic on that article that sometimes the red hands are pointing at each other.

And it made me think of the recent Turning Point meeting, the national meeting where J.D.

Vance and Rubio were on stage and Tucker Carlson was criticizing them and Vance criticized Tucker Carlson.

Exactly.

And everyone on the left was like, oh, finally, finally, they're attacking each other.

Finally, the coalition is coming apart.

But I saw it completely differently.

Those attacks were evidence to the crowd and to Republicans that they have a big enough party that they can criticize each other, that they they are comfortable airing their differences and being authentic about where they disagree with one another without actually saying, now we're going to break apart.

Now we're going to go do our own thing.

Now we're going to factionalize.

This ability to disagree in public is really, really important to creating that sense of authenticity.