Rahm Emanuel

And I find as a socio-political phenomenon, they looked around and maybe both of them said, oh, I can't win in the Republican Party.

I don't think it was that pragmatic.

I actually think they looked and they said, I'm not a Republican anymore.

This is not my party.

In the same way, same region,

A lot of bull weevils, blue dogs, you know, basically woke up one morning and said, the Democratic Party's not my home anymore and became Republicans.

Now the traffic is flowing the other way.

Now, pause, will the party welcome or say, get out of here?

Yeah.

And here's the thing.

We're going to find out, aren't we?

Well, we're going to find out two things.

That's very interesting.

One is we always say we want to be a Big Ten party.

We're going to see who in the party thinks that.

So there's going to be that.

And two is, I don't think the party, my party's fully appreciated that almost 50% of the country is not in a party.

The fastest growing party is unaffiliated, independent, whatever.

And then second, contrary to,

to popular view that somehow if you use a little smelling salts, the New Deal coalition will just pop up out of nowhere.