Jon Lovett
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But it's not a movement of people, like, with actual blood on the actual soil.
It just isn't.
And it makes it really brittle, and it makes it really ultimately weak.
Like, we were talking about this before, like...
Donald Trump is a right wing populist.
But it's not popular.
And he's never had.
He is not the part of a popular front.
He's not leading millions of like men with PTSD who feel abused by the French.
Like they just don't have the fucking guys.
And that's part of what makes the Republican capitulation so pathetic, because they're like surrendering to this guy because.
He's got 80% approval among Republican voters, but he doesn't have the strength, the political movement that should make them actually afraid for the country.
It just isn't real.
It's all digital.
Yeah, we're not hungry.
There's people like, oh, Donald Trump is trying to turn America into Hungary.
It's like, well, you know what?
I think it'd be harder to turn Hungary into Hungary if it were filled with fucking Americans.