David French

There's this huge population of people out there.

who've been doing their own research for a long time on lots of things.

And so you get immediately hooked into this, like your mainlining.

All of a sudden, a lot of the thoughts and ideas of the most disaffected people in society.

And I think it just has this corrupting effect on the brain.

So I think that these people are sincere in their beliefs and that –

in my view, just makes things so much worse because you're talking about radicals radicalizing influencers and then influencers turning around and radicalizing the public to the point where it is not uncommon, Tim,

To encounter an incredibly normie, let's say homeschool mom, who's raising their kids and teaching them sort of classical education.

And then you like peel one inch below the layer of normality and you've got the wildest conspiracies underneath it.

Just the craziest stuff.

And that's becoming just more and more and more common.

You know, a lot of people write off the audiences of Tucker and Candace as, well, that's just fringe.

They're huge audiences.

And you'd be shocked at some of the people who listen.

It's extremely bleak.

It's also extremely consistent with the Trump administration's treatment of –

some of the worst people in the world.

I mean, you know, you have a Chinese crypto billionaire pardoned because, you know, right after he has helped increase the value of Trump's family crypto holdings, who then now is subject to a lawsuit claiming that his company might have been helping funnel money to Hamas.

You have a

Former Honduran elected official who's pardoned after he trafficked hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States.