Emily Jashinsky

But a lot of people have been and a lot of prominent pundits in media who

who may now be very excited about Grant Plattner and who may now be defending Grant Plattner are actually getting a look in the mirror a little bit or finding out what it's like when the shoe is on the other foot because Republican voters, many of them, since the primaries in 2016, were telling people, we no longer care about this character bullshit no matter

How much others might disagree with it, no matter how much I might disagree with it, they've been saying we don't care about it anymore because we don't believe that Jeb Bush is that much better of a man as Donald Trump if he's going to, at the time, send people back into the Middle East or if he is going to make my life that much harder.

We don't necessarily believe that because he has led this perfect personal life.

He's going to be a more moral president.

That goes back 10 years for Republicans.

You can go back to the Clinton administration and Lewinsky scandal and hear Gloria Steinem and other feminists making that case.

But it was thrown out the window in the Trump era for a lot of prominent Democrats.

And now

They're finding out that Republican voters, the sentiments of Republican voters who said, we don't care about this stuff anymore because we are desperate after the Great Recession, after all of these failed wars in the Middle East.

Now with the AI boom threatening to displace half of white-collar jobs, we just want somebody who is going to

metaphorically blow up the political establishment.

And it's a lesser of two evils voting process for a lot of voters out there now.

And now the left is with Graham Plattner experiencing a little bit of the Paxton case that Texas voters just reckoned with last week.

And I wouldn't doubt that there's more to come.

It's very early in this race.

I mean, it's not even past this technical primary, but I would bet there'll be more to come for Plattner.

And that's where I've been fascinated by this campaign since he launched, because it seemed to me like he was trying to do a sort of post-Trump campaign.

campaign where he understood or his consultants also understood the value of authenticity even if sometimes it's like performative authenticity but the value of just like getting out there and owning your reddit posts and being like hey i just

I'd seen a lot of stuff.