Nicolle Wallace

So I think, right, like Insanity's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So I tried to really critically examine what I'd been doing and think about what I could do differently. I really, really did. I also thought, I mean, I'm very inspired by... You're looking at the country.

Like, I think that as an ex-Republican who wanted to sort of mollusk myself onto a different party to solve all the problems like that's like, I think we're in almost a post-political party moment. It is the people are going to decide. We're going to have to decide what world we want for our kids and for the next generation. And so I know a lot of Trump voters.

Like, I think that as an ex-Republican who wanted to sort of mollusk myself onto a different party to solve all the problems like that's like, I think we're in almost a post-political party moment. It is the people are going to decide. We're going to have to decide what world we want for our kids and for the next generation. And so I know a lot of Trump voters.

I live – I have a politically divided family. And I never really bought that it was the price of eggs. Like I really – you know, me thinks it's more than the price of eggs. But let's see. But I – was fixated ahead of the election on the public ambivalence of the titans of business, the kinds of people that our colleague Steph Rule, you know, can get on the phone easily.

I live – I have a politically divided family. And I never really bought that it was the price of eggs. Like I really – you know, me thinks it's more than the price of eggs. But let's see. But I – was fixated ahead of the election on the public ambivalence of the titans of business, the kinds of people that our colleague Steph Rule, you know, can get on the phone easily.

I don't know those people, but I brushed up against some of them when I was in politics, and I was... I was disgusted and fixated on their sort of sitting it out. And I felt angry at people with all this power and people who Trump still cared about, right? Like Trump revealed himself to really not give a shit about the press this time, which is kind of fascinating.

I don't know those people, but I brushed up against some of them when I was in politics, and I was... I was disgusted and fixated on their sort of sitting it out. And I felt angry at people with all this power and people who Trump still cared about, right? Like Trump revealed himself to really not give a shit about the press this time, which is kind of fascinating.

You know, in terms of a funnel, the thing that affects everyone is I think it's sort of the state of the federal government. And I've done a ton on Doge, on USAID. I mean, I know having worked for a Republican president that the people inside the federal government are desperate for the federal government to be more efficient. You want to find the efficiency hawks? You know where they are?

You know, in terms of a funnel, the thing that affects everyone is I think it's sort of the state of the federal government. And I've done a ton on Doge, on USAID. I mean, I know having worked for a Republican president that the people inside the federal government are desperate for the federal government to be more efficient. You want to find the efficiency hawks? You know where they are?

They're the goddamn federal workers themselves. They hate that they have to, like, put everything in writing because their computers aren't up to it. I mean, the people who most want the federal government to be more efficient are the federal workers.

They're the goddamn federal workers themselves. They hate that they have to, like, put everything in writing because their computers aren't up to it. I mean, the people who most want the federal government to be more efficient are the federal workers.

So I always knew that, like, that was bullshit and that that was like a pretext for doing something sinister because there's no friction between the federal workforce and efficiency. They want it to. Right. But the other thing is the economy. And so I have always looked at economic journalism as like this thing so exotic to me. I don't understand it. I don't know who the people are.

So I always knew that, like, that was bullshit and that that was like a pretext for doing something sinister because there's no friction between the federal workforce and efficiency. They want it to. Right. But the other thing is the economy. And so I have always looked at economic journalism as like this thing so exotic to me. I don't understand it. I don't know who the people are.

I would be embarrassed. You know, I'd be more comfortable like interviewing LeBron James and Steve Leisman. Like I know more about what LeBron does than Steve. But I decided like I am going to have to do this thing because the economy, I am told – by, you know, our colleague Steve Kornacki and others, like this is what decided the election.

I would be embarrassed. You know, I'd be more comfortable like interviewing LeBron James and Steve Leisman. Like I know more about what LeBron does than Steve. But I decided like I am going to have to do this thing because the economy, I am told – by, you know, our colleague Steve Kornacki and others, like this is what decided the election.

And it turns out the people who are going to be the most humiliated by Donald Trump 2.0 are the people who voted for him for the price of eggs. The people he is screwing over the most royally are the men in the manosphere who associated their buying power with our politics.

And it turns out the people who are going to be the most humiliated by Donald Trump 2.0 are the people who voted for him for the price of eggs. The people he is screwing over the most royally are the men in the manosphere who associated their buying power with our politics.

The people who are going to be most emasculated are the men in the manosphere who felt like Joe Biden's economy didn't make them feel big enough or good enough. Because they're the people who aren't going to be able to pick up the tab at their kids' baseball tournament weekend. And that makes men and women feel like shit.

The people who are going to be most emasculated are the men in the manosphere who felt like Joe Biden's economy didn't make them feel big enough or good enough. Because they're the people who aren't going to be able to pick up the tab at their kids' baseball tournament weekend. And that makes men and women feel like shit.

And the fact that he's lied to a new segment of civic society, the economy, he lied to the markets, he lied to the businesses, he lied to the economy voters, is to me tragic. And so on brand and just brings more people into the boat rowing toward truth and democracy.