Emily Jashinsky

And so the Biden White House weaponized that over and over again on the age question.

They weaponized it on immigration.

And they weaponized the idea that everyone or they weaponized a distrust of like the Soviet Union to say anybody who was questioning Zelensky was a Putin apologist and was in the pocket of Russia.

And so it's over and over again, this weaponizing, stigmatized issues and using them as shields.

And because the media is much more critical, much more skeptical of Donald Trump, it has this weird baked in trust.

I mean, it's not weird, but it has this baked in loyalty.

lack of skepticism for the claims that establishment democrats make and they end up running press releases for democrats basically i mean they did it with the cheap fakes in the biden era that was literally taken from biden white house communications so like cheap fake narrative and they were laundering it in their coverage and so i think it's because they're way deferential to establishment democrats and then you know they they don't even i don't know that they even realize how badly they got had on immigration for example age for example during the biden administration

And, you know, we saw a little bit of it, interestingly, after the Somali candidate for Minneapolis mayor ended up losing to Jacob Fry.

There were some people on the left who were backers of this progressive Somali candidate who were actually looking around and decrying how some

Somali tribal politics had infiltrated Minneapolis, meaning they were kind of openly talking about how the literal tribes, like I'm not talking about the metaphorical tribalism that we talk in the United States and that many people on the left often will hem and haw about, right?

That we've become too tribal.

Trump and MAGA, they're so tribal.

Well, they're literal tribal politics.

in the greater Minneapolis area right now, like actual tribes that are maneuvering in local politics now against each other.

And that is completely different from this Western liberal republic

lowercase L, lowercase R, that we live in right now.

And the idea that you could just, what is it, like the population's like 80,000 and roughly in the Minneapolis area, most, by the way, U.S.

citizens, naturalized U.S.

citizens, about 10%, which is still a lot, but 10% that are not U.S.

citizens, that this would all just be perfectly fine.