David Friedberg

We're going into a pretty crazy 2026.

There's this big rise in socialism.

There's this big rise in socialism.

The reactionary side is that there's this insane fraud that seems to have taken place in Minnesota that a lot of people are saying is just the tip of the iceberg.

The reactionary side is that there's this insane fraud that seems to have taken place in Minnesota that a lot of people are saying is just the tip of the iceberg.

Is this going to end up becoming the pivot year or two years where politics is really going to end up being where this plays out and where America decides what this

Is this going to end up becoming the pivot year or two years where politics is really going to end up being where this plays out and where America decides what this

next evolution's gonna look like?

next evolution's gonna look like?

Okay, so is your prognostication at this point, you know, there's the old adage that hard times make hard people, hard people make easy times, easy times make soft people, and then soft people make hard times again.

Okay, so is your prognostication at this point, you know, there's the old adage that hard times make hard people, hard people make easy times, easy times make soft people, and then soft people make hard times again.

Right.

Right.

And is the United States going through this era where the easy times, the economic success, the growth of the economy...

And is the United States going through this era where the easy times, the economic success, the growth of the economy...

The extraordinary expansion of wealth in this country has now gotten to the point that it's broken.

The extraordinary expansion of wealth in this country has now gotten to the point that it's broken.

We've become, call it too soft and too oriented around safety over growth, around protectionism over expansionism, where all of this has basically led to a moment where we're effectively eroding all of the greatness that we've built or many of the great systems that we've built or the great opportunity that existed in the United States is being now eroded away.

We've become, call it too soft and too oriented around safety over growth, around protectionism over expansionism, where all of this has basically led to a moment where we're effectively eroding all of the greatness that we've built or many of the great systems that we've built or the great opportunity that existed in the United States is being now eroded away.

And we're going to enter hard times.