Michael Knowles

I kind of want to know which theory of those three you buy.

It was a moment.

I think it might have been emotional.

You know, if it is the greed, I think that that does speak to kind of where the Republican Party is.

In other words, the anti-Semitism and the conspiratorial muddiness and sort of the Tucker wing of what's going on, that is an excellent exit strategy, and it's a very poor entry strategy.

And I think people are mistaking an exit strategy for an entry strategy, meaning that we've seen a bunch of candidates who are endorsed by Tucker, who are getting their asses just handed to them

In election after election, whether it's Casey Putsch against Vivek Ramaswamy up in Ohio, James Fishbeck is about to get crushed by Byron Donalds down here.

You have you have Massey, who's now lost his seat.

MTG has lost her seat.

You're seeing this happen like over and over and over and over.

And so you're seeing people exit and presumably make more money and get the strange new respect on the other end.

But if you're a politician who is looking to get into sort of a position of power in the Republican Party, is your best way of doing that, like as an elected official, to steer into crazy land?

Or does it turn out that actually normie land is the way that you get in and crazy land is the way that you get out with money?

I mean, I have an enormous amount of life insurance on me for very obvious reasons, like hundreds of millions of dollars of life insurance.

And so I definitely understand the necessity for life insurance.

But even if you are just an old man living alone at the end of your life like Drew, well, you know, even you need policy genius.

Man, if Drew could get a 20-year policy for that kind of price, my goodness.

I mean, I agree with that.

But I think that what happened here and what's been happening is that there are lines drawn.

Right.