Raheem Kassam

And I said, look, we went through 2016 together.

We're coming on to a decade of this.

Are you watching the midterms?

And I think I spoke to like 15, 16 people at length about this, political practitioners, reporters, smart people who have been there a long time who I've known for a decade plus, almost every single one of them.

I think only one of them told me, eh, not really.

I'm not really concerned about this.

Almost to a man, every single one of them said, hey, listen.

As goes America next year, as goes the MAGA movement, as goes the Republican Party's successes or failures in the midterms, so goes Europe.

I spoke to people from France.

I spoke to people from Hungary.

I spoke to people from Italy.

I spoke to people from the United Kingdom.

People all across the continent, they all said the same thing, is we are very worried that you guys are sleepwalking into a shellacking.

And as 2016 maybe began with Brexit in a pure sense, in a pure electoral sense with Brexit, and then bounced over, and you got the Trump wave over here, they're now worried about it bouncing back over in a negative sense.

And the problem with it is that whether it's the

50-year mortgages or the $2,000 checks or the bankers or the bank bosses or the big pharma bosses hanging out in the Oval Office.

People just don't feel like that we're walking into next year in a position of strength.

And I happen to agree with them.

People who have followed us for a long time and have followed my work for a long time will probably realize much perhaps to Roger Kimball's chagrin is that I actually do like into Nissan warfare.

I actually shine when it comes to pointing the light on our side and saying we're getting this wrong.