Robert Pape

And the more we added to the database, the more it went from a few hundred to 1,575, the more the profile stayed the same.

It did not shift as more people were arrested.

And it's important to understand because otherwise you're going to look for the shooters in the wrong place.

So this is why it's so important to get the profiles right.

Here's how I explain it, Natalie.

We like our monsters to be villains that are far away from us.

It's comforting to think that the monsters among us who might actually commit these awful acts of political assassination and murder, we like to imagine they're not very close to us.

They're far away.

They're distanced.

Human beings want comfort.

They want the idea that what happened today will never happen again and will surely never happen to them.

It's just very far away from them.

And so that's why these false narratives of who the profile is, they emerge and they're popular because they want to have that assurance.

And so that's really the taproot of this.

No, I'm saying that we need to address this in two stages, and that is in the longer term, after the midterms, we need to really address these social changes.

We don't want to stop the social change of demographic change occurring in the country.

But it would be a wise thing to slow it down so our political institutions can catch up.

And that would mean, just to be very clear, that would mean essentially adopting Obama era immigration policies.

The second thing is, I think we should be reducing the wealth shift and not just stopping it and not just certainly not continuing it.

to the top one percent and that's just not happening by either party both parties are essentially giving money to their donors and that's just going on and on and it's not changing and we need to be upfront about that now those are longer term changes though between now and the midterms you're not changing either of those two policies so what do we do between now and the midterms