Sarah Longwell

It's a crazy making time where reality is often denied to us.

And I was trying to explain to them why I felt like this moment was different and so important.

And part of it was the combination of having the real-time video and then like sort of either the social media response or the media response broadly happening.

that became this Rorschach test for partisanship.

And I just... For me, the hard part was watching the government tell a lie in real time while we could all see that the opposite was happening.

Like, that is a potent sort of thing.

Like, the... Kristi Noem coming out saying she was trying to ram him with her car.

And then you watch the video and you're like, okay, wait a minute.

You could maybe have...

a debate about the level of inches he was away from the car.

You could talk about whether or not he could have been slightly scared that she was moving her car when he was in front of it.

You cannot say she turned her car to ram him with it.

Like, everybody can see that that's a lie.

And I think, though, the extent to which the vice president

Kristi Noem, Trump himself.

Trump's like, I can't believe he survived that.

And we're all watching it.

And and then they're releasing footage like they're releasing footage that they think helps their case because there's a mouthy lesbian, you know, saying, you know, go get your lunch, big boy to them.

And they're sort of using that.

They're trying to other the people to make sure, you know, this is a Marxist lesbian.