Isaac Saul

Hearing Rubio say that, like we want them to choose the path of peace, it's hard not to just see the images of Tehran on fire that we were all watching on Twitter in the early days of the war.

It's like we did not choose the path of peace.

We chose the path of force, and now we're in it, and you guys have to figure out how to get us out of it.

But they're just reframing the whole thing.

Yeah.

My working thesis, I think, is that opponents of the president who want to make this a story are literally overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that's happening on a daily basis, which honestly, I don't blame them for because it's hard to pick one thing and make that the focus of the critique of the administration.

I was trying to write a whole comprehensive roundup of this story.

And I had a guide and a Google Doc I'd been building out for over a year and tracking all these stories really closely.

And even with that kind of focus, somebody asked me, which is the story that kind of blows your mind the most or that you feel like is most emblematic of this?

And it's like my brain malfunctions because I don't know which one to pick.

So many of them are so astonishing.

And I think if you are a critic of the president, that's a challenge in terms of just the really baseline political messaging question.

And then if you're a supporter of the president, I think the reality is you don't hear about a lot of these stories.

I mean, they show up in the New York Times.

Maybe the Wall Street Journal does some reporting.

Maybe they go viral among critics of the president on social media.

But we are really still in this information silo.

And the reason that I know that is because when I published this piece, some of the top comments on the article were from Trump voters who are my readers who were saying things like, I hadn't heard about 90% of these.

Like, I just literally hadn't heard about them.

And I think that is a big, big problem that the sort of, you know, Democratic left wing independent messaging machine has is they are really not reaching a lot of the people who need to hear this stuff the most.