Ezra Klein

Let me hold before we go to John Ossoff and the different Obama registers.

The nice young man, what it means to be nice, the weakness of being nice, has been the main form of attack the Paxton campaign has decided to unleash.

I think it's so crazy.

Like, low-T Talarico, tofu Talarico, Talafrico, which now the Talarico campaign has Talafrico shirts.

I think that one was a Paxton mistake.

But the...

The weakness they think they have sensed is that people want strength.

Yeah.

And a nice young man who wants you to like him and speaks often of his own humility and has a vegan girlfriend.

is not strong enough for Texas.

I mean, that's a charitable version.

They're calling him the F-slur is what they're doing.

I mean, you're giving a charitable version of what the actual campaign is.

Well, and actually quite literally, like, you know, you have Stephen Miller saying the first transgender candidate, right?

You know, he's a queer.

Yes.

It's very schoolyard, all of it.

Yes.

When we take a step back, it's true, just like cruelty versus kindness.

Yes, they're really they're really playing into the campaign Tallarico wanted to set up.