Raheem Kassam
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Yeah, that's that's their little shtick.
You've got to look past the shtick and you've got to understand why these people have the audiences they have.
And that's because there are still so many people out there who are left behind, who are feeling more left behind than ever.
And that brings me on to my piece, because we are now a decade in to this populist nationalist project proper.
Right.
The things, the balls that we started rolling back in 2012 and 2013 through, you know, from from your side of the pond here, Steve, to mine over in the United Kingdom.
When we went around to the little town halls and the little seaside towns all across the United Kingdom, and we looked at what people were going through, and we talked to understand, not to talk to create content, but to actually understand and to create a policy platform based on the struggles of these ordinary people's lives, and not just ordinary people.
But people whose families and whose grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents and whose entire family lineages have been sacrificed day upon day, whether it's in the mines, whether it's in the wars, wherever it was and whenever it was, that have created the world that we live in today and that we take for granted every day.
And what happened was we saw that they had been shunned.
disparaged, spat upon by an establishment who said, yeah, thanks, we'll take it from here.
Thanks for all the hard work of your bloodline, but we'll take it from here.
We got this now.
We don't need you.
Retire out to your little terrace somewhere off in some Newcastle suburb.
We don't need you.
And along with the information age came this ability for people like you and I and for those to engage with those people.
We did it every single morning, remember, for three hours on the old Breitbart News radio show where we had a cross-section of society, a cross-section of America calling in.
I still remember it off the top of my head.
Line one, Lewin, Connecticut.
Line two, Vinnie in New York.