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And like, OK, granted, like, look, there is something to the broadly speaking, his point that.
If you're going to put a political coalition together, OK, not everybody's going to get what they want all the time.
You got like this is the way real politics works is you got to sacrifice some things for some other things.
And then hopefully you can keep being a winning coalition and get some more that you're not going to get everything.
Well, you get some of the things you want.
Like, all right, there's there's like.
In a vacuum, there's some truth to that.
argument but then again it also can't be really important things that you sacrifice because then you know you're in the business of doing really evil things and
You know, like, so, okay, yeah, there is some maturity in that in theory, but then there's also some maturity in recognizing that once you accept this worldview, once you accept Dinesh's mature framework, you've really kind of handed the keys over to evil big government institutions in a way that they can never possibly be hoped to be reined in.
Because, Rob, how easy is it to rig that game now?
So all I got to do is make sure the Democrats are a little bit worse, and then you'll support the Republicans no matter what.
In this instance, it's like what we're talking about, you might notice, Dinesh, this is why it's so pathetic.
It hurts me as someone who has some respect for Dinesh D'Souza to see this because he can't even pretend to defend the actual policy, right?
Like, sucks that we're not getting the rest of the Epstein files.
But anyway, we gotta support him because you're on the team.
So he's not even defending the thing.