Dan Bongino

I think about other things too, like the Supreme Court thing.

Did he, I mean, did he personally look at each of these people and go, oh, here's what they're gonna do about voter ID and abortion and the Second Amendment?

No, he's a transactional guy.

He's used to delegating.

He goes, hey, Leonard Leo, Federalist Society, these guys have had some pretty good ideas.

And that's what he does.

And maybe the Republican Party needs more of a transactionalist.

And you had asked in the beginning,

You know, can we keep this going?

And the answer is, I'm not sure.

I mean, I'm not sure we have this great bench of people who can blend this new populism.

Yeah, but I think your analogy there, you got me thinking, which happens a lot when you make a really good point.

The McConnell thing, you're right.

Why the disparity in kind of views?

Why are we so sure that McConnell sold this out, but Trump didn't?

And I think it's because...

I think they believe McConnell's playing a cynical game where Trump is really doing it because he believes people in the know have told them, like, this is the better path.

I'll give you an example.

Here's what I mean.

I think it's almost like political naivete is Trump's superpower, which sounds odd, whereas it's McConnell's curse because he's not politically naive.