Mark Hemingway

And I do not get why they would make this argument other than simply to attack Trump.

Well, that is a really good question.

I think, honestly, a lot of it, though, is that these people do exist in a, well, I mean, I hesitate to call it intellectual world, but they do exist in this world where they get paid to talk about ideas.

And I think that is, in large part, over time, insulated a lot of people from the consequences or understanding the stakes for ordinary people.

which is one reason why they don't understand populism.

Populism is very much a reaction from ordinary people responding to real forces in their lives.

Um, you know, um, and they're simply not in touch with that.

Um, and I, you know, I, I agree with you about the stakes, um, uh, a hundred percent.

Um, but it's, it's, it's really shocking to me to see these people, um, you know, come out in like my, my former boss, I was a writer of the weekly standard for a number of years.

Um, uh, Bill Crystal came out and recently endorsed, you know, ma'am Danny for, um,

you know mayor of new york you know he endorsed a literal communist islamist uh to be the next mayor of new york and this is a man who has spent the last you know however many years um trying to tell other you know other conservatives that they're unprincipled for supporting trump um and yet he's the guy that you know used to be a big conservative pundit who's now going out and endorsing communists um and i think that ordinary people are pretty sick of this situation here where

There are these elites that are telling them what to think when they're simply responding to the things that they see, the changes in values around them, the economic forces that have undermined their way of making a living.

I mean, there's so many obvious things to these people as voters.

And maybe you don't agree with the solutions that these people have seized upon, and that's fine.

But it's at least your job to at least try and persuade people instead of sneer and then

And that seems to be all that they can do.

And the Schlafly article is a very good example of that.

I am at Heminator on X, H-E-M-I-N-A-T-O-R.

That was a stupid college nickname that I chose in 2009 because I didn't think this social media thing would be serious, but it's now a professional moniker, unfortunately.

Thank you.