David French

And in January 20th, 2026, we are now much more aware of who the real powers are within his kingdom.

And Stephen Miller is at the top of the advisor pecking order.

Well, they don't appreciate the alliance.

You know, it's been fully imbibed within Trump world and MAGA broadly that our alliances are actually a drag on us, that we're sort of carrying around people.

Imagine you had a basketball team where you had Michael Jordan and then like four stiffs.

on the court.

And they're just a liability more than they're an asset.

And America will be stronger.

America will be more prosperous if it's shed these alliances that pull us down, that drag us down.

Their influence, they see their influence as nefarious on American life and culture.

Yeah, so essentially what he's arguing is that one of the things that aided the rise of the Nazi party was it is not as if the Nazis came into power and then everything changed for everybody, that most Germans were still living under what he calls the normative state.

And that would be the normal life and existence that we all enjoy, where you can start a business, you can enter into a contract, you can go to court and enforce your rights against somebody who's violated your rights.

It all is normal.

But what he said is that along this normative state that was still existing, there was something he called the prerogative state.

And the prerogative state was the zone of lawlessness.

This was the zone of aggression for the state.

And so where the state's interests intersected with the normative state, then the prerogative state would take over.

And this would impact only a minority of citizens.

So for example, you know, Jews in Germany,

They were subject to the prerogative state.