Glenn Greenwald

You need to live in New York to really understand that socioeconomic dynamic of how people in Manhattan look at the outer boroughs.

And that did develop in Donald Trump, this genuine outsider resentment and mentality.

that i think is almost a prerequisite to being a popular politician in in the united states and even in the broader west because of how much contempt people have for for the elite class and if you seem like you're too comfortable within or that you really are more identified with that elite class and that you don't have that genuine outsider mentality

I think a lot of people are going to sniff that out and immediately kind of reject you.

I think it was Kamala Harris's big problem.

You know, I think I've said on your show before, she always reminds me of somebody who just came out of like a board of directors meeting at like a health insurance company where she's the general counsel.

You know, like there's everything about her reeks of like insider establishment comfort.

And if you're JD Vance, no matter how you end up, and you know, I had a working class background as well.

I'm not comparing it to JD Vance's, but there's always a part of you.

You know, it's always something that you feel.

There's always a little bit of resentment in you that you grew up in a certain way and didn't have things that a lot of other people had.

And I think that is a prerequisite for being successful in American politics, given how much the establishment is hated in general.

they really have dug their own grave.

And it was so obvious in 2024 what that grave was, which was they were between, you know, they were faced with two awful choices.

Either they went with Kamala Harris, who they, you know, everybody, it was a consensus

Until the day she became the nominee that she was one of the all-time worst politicians.

Every time she opened her mouth, she embarrassed herself.

Everybody understood that.

Everybody knew that.

Her 2020 campaign was a complete disaster.