Ezra Klein

The other thing that I think is worth touching here, one thing I see among the Democrats right now is they're all competing to prove they're the fighter.

And relatively few are working in the more inspirational side of the tradition.

that you look at Newsom, you look at AOC, you look at Pritzker, right?

Like they're all like, I am your brawler, right?

I will rip their throats out for you.

And Ossoff, even though he's sort of attacking corruption, he is- Not in that mode at all.

It's a different register.

There's a type of Democrat who, even if they've learned to suppress it,

Their fundamental feeling at all levels is a disbelief.

I can't believe this is happening.

That anybody could like this guy, that these things aren't sinking him.

Yes.

And he is formed in races.

Exactly.

Where that... Where that is not a register that works and you cannot...

A lot of Democrats have to kind of abstractly come to the view that there are people in this world who like Donald Trump, but they don't know any of them.

And if they do, they maybe cut them out of their lives.

And that is not John Ossoff's world.

That's what I mean.

So he's formed fully in an environment in which the appeal of Trump and Trump's power over the electorate and Trump's power over specific people that...