Matt Gaetz

Did you try?

No, and not my cup of tea.

But she, after January 6th, treated us all like we had horns or something.

Do you think, was that real?

No, but it is reflective of the performance art of Congress.

And it was just bad performance art.

Because on... I find that contemptible.

Yeah, but we are a society that is increasingly built on grievance identity.

you are the grievance that you can access, right?

And so if you are a woman, that can be a source of grievance if you're a minority.

And then you have people who are just odd and say, well, maybe if I'm trans, then that can be this source of grievance.

And then you have a bunch of white men looking around saying,

Well, I guess I'll be a drug addict because then like that can be my source of grievance.

And, you know, she was leaning into that.

She wanted to show that she had been aggrieved by this act and should be owed some unique empathy.

I'm brave enough to tell you what I really think.

Yeah, and I got to a point where I was confident enough with my district where I could say the things I believed that I knew they didn't, because even if they disagreed with me on a subject, they knew I came to that view sincerely, that I wasn't holding, marijuana legalization is something you and I disagree on.

Yeah.

I disagreed with a majority of my constituents on that point.

I authored Florida's marijuana law.