Faiz Shakir

I don't think he necessarily sees it as the DNC role.

I think

Schumer, Jeffries, the leaders of the Democratic Party right now don't want to necessarily campaign in that kind of direction.

They think if Trump is burying himself, why put anything out there affirmatively for a vision?

And so you've got a bit of a play dead philosophy and mentality that is governing much of the Democratic ranks.

And for those of us who are trying to reinstill the brand to be definitionally about something,

It's an uphill climb right now.

It explains partly why Bernie Sanders is so popular within the Democratic Party right now.

Why in a leaderless place, why he is probably the most popular Democrat and elected official in America is because he's definitely definitely about something affirmative.

And he fractures his own coalition.

You see now Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly.

And he let them down.

I mean, I think in my mind, the one big difference from his first term to a second term, what did we a lot of things were baking the cake about Donald Trump.

If we had told each other, oh, he's going to be tough on immigration.

He's going to do some acts that are borderline illegal.

We wouldn't have been terribly surprised about that if you said, oh, he's going to even, you know, engage in tax cuts for the rich.

There's lots of things that you just would have baked into the cake.

I think the way in which he campaigned and at least from the moment he wins.

to immediately the inauguration, having Bezos, Zuckerberg and, you know, Musk right behind him was a stark departure from the first term in which, you know, you remember you got an antitrust case against Google.

And now in the second term, he has just wholeheartedly embraced big tech and the oligarchy, Saudi Arabia, the kings of the universe, as it were, as a corruption racket.