Michael Malice

It's just so many things about just overnight, just change for the profound better.

And, you know, people are so,

committed to making sure you don't have hope and if things get better, oh, it doesn't really matter because the broader picture never gets better.

And there's lots of data to the contrary where that's happened before.

And this isn't some magical faraway place.

This is the opposite of magical faraway place.

It's Eastern Europe.

My hope, which I don't think is an unrealistic one,

is that the next generation has a better life than you and I have had in this country.

And I think anyone who thinks that America is over

or is one president away from being destroyed, cannot in good conscience call themselves a patriot.

Because if you think America is so weak that it takes a Biden or a Trump or an Obama to irrevocably destroy it, then it's already a wrap.

And I think that's just absolutely ridiculous.

If you look what this country has survived, Great Depression, World War II, the Civil War.

I mean, my God.

So we've been through worse before.

It wasn't always easy, certainly not.

But it's so hard for me as someone who's a hopeful person, not by my nature, I'm not Michael Kindness, who does work for Random House, or at least he did last time I talked to him.

I look at even like, the thing is when you speak positively, it sounds corny.

That's how screwed up our cynical culture is.