Sam Harris

They don't scale.

They don't generalize.

They're not reasons anyone should adopt for themselves or respect epistemologically.

And yet their circumstance is understandable and it's something you can care about.

Right.

And so, yeah, I think there's many examples of this that you might be thinking of, but one that comes to mind is I've been super critical of Trump, obviously, and I've been super critical of certain people for endorsing him or not criticizing him when he...

really made it, you know, patently obvious who he was, you know, if there had been any doubt initially.

There was no doubt when we have a sitting president who's not agreeing to a peaceful transfer of power, right?

So I'm critical of all of that, and yet the fact that

many millions of Americans didn't see what was wrong with Trump or bought into the, um, didn't see through his con, right?

I mean, they bought into the idea that he was a brilliant businessman who might just be able to change things because he's so unconventional.

And so, you know, his heart is in the right place.

You know, he's really a man of the people, even though he's a, you know, gold plated everything in his life.

Um, and,

they bought the myth somehow of, you know, largely because they had seen him on television for,

almost a decade and a half, pretending to be this genius businessman who could get things done.

It's understandable to me that many very frustrated people who have not had their hopes and dreams actualized, who have been the victims of globalism and many other current trends, it's understandable that they would

be confused and not see the liability of electing a grossly incompetent, morbidly narcissistic person into the presidency.

Which is to say that I don't blame

There are many, many millions of people who I don't necessarily blame for the Trump phenomenon, but I can nonetheless bemoan the phenomenon as indicative of a very bad state of affairs in our society.