Garrison Davis

It just means like he's human.

So for most of the book, the strange people on the hill are removed on the hill.

But when you encounter them, there is this very human intimacy to these encounters.

And not only that, everybody has a rough go in this book, including them.

getting raked over the coals by Letitia James.

Well, over the course of this, that, that there, if you follow their, their arc and their arcs throughout the book, but one particular arc, it starts with them really thinking they've got it.

Like, this is like, this is like high point of VDR's existence.

They have a castle.

They have a home base, uh,

that they can use in perpetuity after Brimelow leaves, the movement can flourish and grow.

This is like, this is it.

They got a castle.

They haven't really used it that way that much, like every now and again, but like... This is the best situation they've ever had.

Like, they're great.

And they've also just coming off of getting a whole bunch of dark money, donations from two people.

We don't know who they are, but it's like, you know, 4.5 mil in like one year.

Under the pressure of that, and just under the pressure of just everybody around them, you know, not wanting them to be there,

They decide to dial down VDR altogether, and it still exists in the sense of, like, the Twitter account still exists, and Brimelow's still writing on Substack.

God help us.

I mean, the videos that they published about their closing, I mean, it's just a laundry list of things that add up to a defeat.