Jeremy Boreing

Do my children even have any chance of coming to adulthood believing in fundamental biological reality?

These are the kinds of concerns that people have.

And if we only try to address those concerns through the language of opposition—

Well, we can't win because we're not in opposition.

We're in leadership right now.

We are the party that controls the presidency, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court.

Who is it exactly that we're opposing on these issues?

Why aren't we scoring any victories while we control the government?

The answer is because we don't have that affirmative vision.

Well, I think it's a bad moment because conservative media right now, as we said at the beginning of the conversation, is sort of in love with yesterday's tools.

We're in love with the things that got us here.

And what got us here is dated social media platforms and oppositional political instincts.

So I don't hear a lot of people speaking an affirmative vision for the future of the country right now.

I think that's why we're in the shape that we're in.

I think that Donald Trump sort of constitutionally doesn't do it.

Even MAGA, Make America Great Again, is a sort of backward-looking orientation.

It's useful because we all know that there's something that we've lost.

But the next stage of successful Republican governance has to be looking ahead.

It's not make America great again.

It's like bring forward America's greatness into the future.