Ned Ryun

He comes into Congress.

He's there for five terms.

I came back to D.C.

in 2000 thinking, I'm going to try out D.C.

for a year or two.

Here we are 25 years later, married, four kids,

Quite the adventure along the way.

Started multiple nonprofits.

Obviously, do the commentaries you refer to.

Do a whole host of things, but it's been quite the ride.

I would like to think of myself, Vince, as even though I've been in the D.C.

area for a very long time, I'm an insider with the outsider's perspective.

Know a lot of how the town works, whether it's Congress, whether it's the White House.

Yeah.

And I would like to think I've been as pretty consistent, as consistent as imperfect human beings can be over the last couple of decades in regards to what we need to do to be successful.

You know, it's interesting you bring that up.

I was thinking about a piece I used to write for the American Spectator and wrote a piece.

I want to say this is back in 2011 about Americanism.

that we were in pursuit of Americanism, not republicanism, not corporatism, obviously not democratism, but what does it mean to truly represent and prioritize the American people?

It was something that I'd been thinking about for a very long time.