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But I'm already fundraising for a lot of these folks, right?

Small dollar donations from all around the country keep flooding into all the campaigns that I work with.

But yeah, I am cognizant of that.

On the other hand, one thing that I'm thinking about is, well, this medium lends itself so perfectly to being clipped out of context.

And I think we are now in a media environment where that doesn't matter as much.

I mean, Donald Trump's the president, right?

Like, he is the president.

It's not just his words that are messed up that galvanize some of the most reactionary forces in this country and normalize some of the most heinous, most toxic, repulsive types of politics.

I mean, he ran on...

He campaigned on saying Haitians are eating cats and dogs.

That's unbelievable.

That's white supremacy through and through.

And he won.

So on the one hand, I think that we are now existing in a very different media environment than the one that MSNOW, New York Times, and CNN want to exist in.

I think that that kind of stuff is over.

Like you're a vulgar person as an independent content creator.

I think most people don't care about that.

Most people care about like who you are and what your values are and what you represent.

And I've been able to withstand these kinds of

smear campaigns on even the independent side far before I ever drew the ire of RNC research department.