David French

I think you're going to see in many districts, there's a lot of more moderate Democrats who are running.

And I hope that they can win their primaries.

And if you do see that, you might see some pretty surprising flips in this next cycle.

You might see some pretty shocking outcomes.

I think we're way past the point of saying this is all an act.

Yeah.

If it's an act, it's like one of the best acting jobs I've ever seen in my entire life.

And especially, you know, and similar with Candace, similar with some of these other figures.

And, you know, one thing that I learned in the practice of law, Tim, one of the questions that you're often asked when you want to be a lawyer is, how can you represent somebody whom you know is lying?

Or how do you represent somebody

Who, you know, is lying.

And one of the things that you realize is that when the stakes are high enough, people will believe their own BS.

People don't live for very long in that tension of being an intentional liar.

They will often migrate to and rationalize to the point where they can pass lie detector tests for some of their craziest assertions.

The human brain is a very interesting thing.

It's an incredible engine of rationalization.

And you also have to understand that once you enter this space, the next thing that happens is you're bombarded with messages from people who are like, finally, yes, here's this secret memo I found.

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.