David French

And one of the reasons why I was very quickly became no longer welcome in a lot of conservative circles is because I was calling this stuff out.

They were saying, shut up.

The real enemy is Hillary Clinton.

The real enemy is the Democrats.

And so they were allowing into the tent anyone who would train their fire on the Democrats, and they were shoving away outside of the tent anyone who was saying, we've got a problem on the right.

All of these things together started to pull some of the worst figures in American politics, including neo-Nazis, right into this broader right-wing tent.

Let me put it this way.

People were more angry at me for calling attention to the fact that neo-Nazis had photoshopped pictures of my then seven-year-old daughter into gas chambers with Donald Trump in an SS uniform pressing the button to kill her.

They were more upset that I was calling attention to that fact than they were that that happened.

Why?

Because they didn't want me to undermine the sense of solidarity against Hillary Clinton.

And if that is the dynamic, if that is the moral calculus here, then everything that has happened since was almost inevitable at this point.

Because once you have said, I'm going to accommodate neo-Nazi expression for the quote-unquote greater good of taking down a mainstream Democrat...

then you've lost your way.

You have absolutely lost your way.

And here we are.

And here we are.

Thank you, Michelle.

Uh, how about you go first, David?

Okay.