Nick Troiano

And in Oklahoma, those are closed to unaffiliated voters.

And so those are two states, I think, to be watching for.

And to your point, the environment has never been more ripe because our political system has never been more dysfunctional.

We just emerged from the longest government shutdown that we've seen in history, motivated by, in this case, Democratic leaders who just want to fight.

I mean, that's what this has become.

I mean, the word of the year, the Oxford Dictionary new word is rage bait.

That's reflective of where our politics is right now.

That's a good question.

But that's reflective of our politics, which is it's about playing to the base.

It's about demonstrating the fight, not about solving problems.

And that's why this primary problem in the incentives is behind so much of the dysfunction that we see.

our inability to solve problems.

Another issue we can look at is immigration.

As you know, Chuck, a decade ago, there was a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate.

It goes to the House.

Why does it fail?

Well, the House majority leader was primaried out of office that summer because he was open to some compromise on this.

And then here we are, a decade of pendulum politics.

We had effectively open borders under the Biden administration, and now we have ICE raids with even American citizens being snatched off the streets under President Trump.

People don't want these extreme policies that we've been seeing of late.