Owen

And by their base, I mean the fringe left.

They keep shifting further left because that seems to be the ones that are most rabidly opposed to Trump and most aligned with all the arguments they end up coming up with.

to say, oh, look how horrible Trump is and look how everything he does is bad.

The moderates, they're not

They're not appealing to those people from what I can tell.

It doesn't seem like they really understand or they're not very smart about saying, you know what, we need to shift towards the center.

We need to connect with the people that would otherwise vote for Trump and might be convinced not to.

In the midterms, of course, it's more about Congress, but the same concept applies.

Of course, Trump still dominates all the headlines every day.

It's going to be part of the equation there.

But I think I agree with what Marcella said.

I think they're more just based on their ideological lens on things, but they're also more based on just how they feel or how they think people feel.

And they're often very out of line with

vast majority of the country um because they have this knee-jerk reaction where whatever trump does they have to oppose it no matter how unpopular taking that view is um so when more than half the country thinks all the immigrants should go home or when it's even more skewed where maybe 80 of the people think we should have voter id or 70 or whatever it's up there um you know they do they just don't care they just they just want to have that oppositional

position.

And I think it is because they're not really able to think with reason and say what would make the most sense.

So I think it's overall a good thing for the Republicans that things are that way, because I think they would be a much tougher opponent if they were

shifting more towards the center and if they were trying to have a positive message and if they had a good vision for the future instead of just being I'm against whatever that Trump guy said.

But at the same time I am worried about the midterms just because it seems like the way the maps are set up and you know the way that all the

gerrymandering has gone through.