Chuck Todd

We're talking as bad as the 70s were.

And remember, we now have a fertilizer issue.

It could be that this is a Trump hangover type of thing.

We've got food transport issues and we got supply chain issues.

But my instinct has been that it's, that I'm surprised at Ossoff's strength.

So this is this is not going to get better anytime soon.

Let me put it that way.

This is and we have not felt the worst parts of this.

So far, and we'll find out when there's a nominee.

But in this larger question, right, America's divided.

Every expert said come about mid-April, then all of a sudden it's going to feel like things went off a cliff.

If Alexis de Tocqueville came back to life, right, and was trying to study America again and write about democracy in America, what would you tell him that we're divided about?

Well, this is the week where we hit mid-April.

Gas prices, biggest one month spike since the 60s.

Hiring is slowing.

What is this big issue?

Wages are flattening.

In the 19th century, we knew what we were divided about.

Uncertain economic future means companies start freezing everything they're doing.

There was a specific thing this country was divided about.