Katherine Mangu-Ward

I wish I knew.

I would find them.

I would, you know, bring them into a safe shelter here at the Reason offices.

I would give them a hot meal and a blanket because surely they have been out in the cold for so long.

I think, I mean, so the actual answer, right, is that

Over the over the years, the presence of Trump in particular and also just in general, the kind of will to power conservatism that has risen in the GOP, this kind of this idea that it is we are no longer we no longer have to play fair.

The other side has already cheated.

So we simply have to seize power and use it justifies the means.

And justifies the means that attitude has sort of become ascendant on the left and the right.

But conservatives or Republicans, I should say, have had more chance to put that into action.

And that has slowly pushed out a whole bunch of subtypes of Republicans and conservatives who were a little more on the libertarian side.

So they've been primaried out.

They've been bullied out by Trump.

You know, he does.

He is not afraid to use his his, you know, true social account to just say, you know, Thomas Massey's on the out.

Screw this guy.

And and some of them, I think, just left in despair.

I mean, a lot of people who are Johnson's of the world, right?

A lot of people who I admired in politics and who were sort of maybe slightly quirky figures just said, I can't do this anymore.

Basically, anyone from Arizona ever.