Raheem Kassam
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Mary Ann in Delaware, you know, all of these people and they stick in your mind.
And there's a reason they do, because they told us that ordinary stories of their ordinary lives and how much trouble they were being put in because of the factlessness and the carelessness and the wastefulness of the people who were supposed to be not just their elected representatives, but their leaders to the people.
whether they will admit it openly or not, want leadership.
And as we walk and stagger in to the midterms next year, I am afraid that we are lacking in this leadership now.
Well, there is leadership in America, in fact, but that leadership is coming from a corporate class that have managed to capture so much of what I call MAGA Inc.,
Now, people who are not involved in this movement, who weren't there, by the way, when we were in 2013 and 14, building this thing from the ground up, let alone 2016, right, let alone the Brexit movement, let alone going through what you went through.
let alone people who have not been, you know, they've not been persecuted for what they've done and what they believe, but they're here now and what are they doing with the power that they have, whether they're working in the administration or whether they're consultants or whatever it is, they are just making moolah.
They're just in it for the big bucks.
And believe me, the bucks are big.
You know, every single day on Capitol Hill, I go through several different phone calls of people just trying to throw cash around.
Oh, we need the support for this.
You know, we're trying to stop the antitrust people at the DOJ from looking into this, that and the other.
And they take the cash and they run and they run for the movement.
They sell out the people who started this movement.
And I'm not talking about you and I here.
I'm talking about ordinary people again.
right, who really started this movement.
They are really the true inheritors of the Make America Great Again, of the America First movement.
And so I started to talk in the last couple of days to friends of mine back in Europe