Krystal Ball

When I started, I was 27. I think I was 28 when the election happened.

When I started, I was 27. I think I was 28 when the election happened.

I was pretty young, yeah. Wow. And... what did it teach me? Most of the lessons that taught me were unfortunately kind of negative because I came in so naive, Matt, so idealistic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And it's a good thing I did because if I had known I would never have done it. You were much smarter and much more like you were much savvier when you were considering a run.

I was pretty young, yeah. Wow. And... what did it teach me? Most of the lessons that taught me were unfortunately kind of negative because I came in so naive, Matt, so idealistic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And it's a good thing I did because if I had known I would never have done it. You were much smarter and much more like you were much savvier when you were considering a run.

I was pretty young, yeah. Wow. And... what did it teach me? Most of the lessons that taught me were unfortunately kind of negative because I came in so naive, Matt, so idealistic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And it's a good thing I did because if I had known I would never have done it. You were much smarter and much more like you were much savvier when you were considering a run.

And, um,

And, um,

And, um,

yeah i really thought like oh sure this is a pretty republican district but if i go in and talk to people and i've got a good agenda or whatever and it just doesn't work that way it's like okay what year is it what is the partisan lean of your district there's a lot of locked in partisanship that's just impossible to overcome there's the probably the deepest lesson it taught me though because i do think what we've experienced over the past number of years is there actually are more voters who are swing voters who are willing to move

yeah i really thought like oh sure this is a pretty republican district but if i go in and talk to people and i've got a good agenda or whatever and it just doesn't work that way it's like okay what year is it what is the partisan lean of your district there's a lot of locked in partisanship that's just impossible to overcome there's the probably the deepest lesson it taught me though because i do think what we've experienced over the past number of years is there actually are more voters who are swing voters who are willing to move

yeah i really thought like oh sure this is a pretty republican district but if i go in and talk to people and i've got a good agenda or whatever and it just doesn't work that way it's like okay what year is it what is the partisan lean of your district there's a lot of locked in partisanship that's just impossible to overcome there's the probably the deepest lesson it taught me though because i do think what we've experienced over the past number of years is there actually are more voters who are swing voters who are willing to move

then um and change you know ideological affiliation then i think we had been led to believe but i'd say the deepest lesson it really taught me is just how freaking central the money is the money is so central and it really in my opinion if you had to point at one root of all evil in our political system it really is the corruption of the money citizens united ruined american politics

then um and change you know ideological affiliation then i think we had been led to believe but i'd say the deepest lesson it really taught me is just how freaking central the money is the money is so central and it really in my opinion if you had to point at one root of all evil in our political system it really is the corruption of the money citizens united ruined american politics

then um and change you know ideological affiliation then i think we had been led to believe but i'd say the deepest lesson it really taught me is just how freaking central the money is the money is so central and it really in my opinion if you had to point at one root of all evil in our political system it really is the corruption of the money citizens united ruined american politics

I think that's a big part. There were some other decisions along the way, but it really is one of them. And Elon is the logical endpoint of that. You know, here's a guy who has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump. And as a reward, he gets to cut USAID and he gets to gut the consumer financial, like the anti-scam agency.

I think that's a big part. There were some other decisions along the way, but it really is one of them. And Elon is the logical endpoint of that. You know, here's a guy who has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump. And as a reward, he gets to cut USAID and he gets to gut the consumer financial, like the anti-scam agency.

I think that's a big part. There were some other decisions along the way, but it really is one of them. And Elon is the logical endpoint of that. You know, here's a guy who has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump. And as a reward, he gets to cut USAID and he gets to gut the consumer financial, like the anti-scam agency.

He gets to make sure that none of his companies are going to be regulated. Like he just gets to come in and run wild. and have the president doing a Tesla ad on the White House lawn, et cetera. And that's the most extreme version we've ever seen. There's no other comparison to that in American history. You have to go back to like J.P.

He gets to make sure that none of his companies are going to be regulated. Like he just gets to come in and run wild. and have the president doing a Tesla ad on the White House lawn, et cetera. And that's the most extreme version we've ever seen. There's no other comparison to that in American history. You have to go back to like J.P.

He gets to make sure that none of his companies are going to be regulated. Like he just gets to come in and run wild. and have the president doing a Tesla ad on the White House lawn, et cetera. And that's the most extreme version we've ever seen. There's no other comparison to that in American history. You have to go back to like J.P.