Joel Pollak

And this is, in fact, happening in California.

The California Democratic Convention just met and they nominated some candidates for Congress and they nominated the more moderate ones, not the far left ones, because Nancy Pelosi knows that's how you win.

So the message to Democrats is, you know, don't worry.

Don't worry.

Don't make a lot of noise about it.

Don't don't get upset about it.

But we're going to run some moderate candidates.

Once they're in, they can do whatever you want.

And.

The other thing that she did was she reinforced this idea that ICE is basically the Gestapo, that they're arresting citizens, that they're poorly trained.

They're a bunch of thugs that come in.

It's a terrible way to talk about American law enforcement.

And just I don't know.

It's some part of me is just repulsed by the whole thing.

But that is the Democratic Party narrative.

That's how they see their identity as opposed to the Republican Party.

And so it was a good speech for Democrats because she reinforced the feeling that they're standing up against tyranny in some way.

Now, Scott addresses this in his book with Wynne Bigley.

where he talks about the absolute conviction of Trump's critics that he was the new Hitler and that this horrible authoritarian regime was descending.

And he said none of that was true.