Jon Slavet

And there's a lot of things that need to happen, right, to set the stage for that.

We have a lot of things to sort out, Chuck, don't we, in our body politic before that can happen.

But for me, I'm an old school Republican.

I describe myself more as a Reagan Republican, which is looking at government very skeptically.

And what is the role of government?

What can government really be good at?

There's an orientation around politics.

freedom and property rights.

It's a respect for business being a prime engine of opportunity creation in society.

It's those kinds of things.

And I think if you look in California at where the better ideas are for turning the state around, it's more on the Republican side than the Democrat side.

And again, I'm not in this to bash Democrats.

Most of my family are Democrats.

They've all come out saying, John, how could you?

How could you be a Republican?

Trump, Trump, Trump.

And what I tell them is put Trump aside.

California's problems are not because of Trump.

This is an own goal in California.

So I'm a Republican really based on policy and philosophy.