Sarah Longwell

Like they feel like the country is a powder keg.

They feel like we're too divided.

They're scared about civil war.

And so there's this like deep pervading sense or pervasive sense of unease.

But the prices are the things you hear because when prices are high, people's anxiety is high and they

and high kind of now for a long time.

And so people are starting to crack.

And I got to tell you, a year ago, what we would hear from these voters is, OK, like Trump is going to fix it.

And like Rome wasn't built in a day, but I think he's going to get there.

And like every week you just see sort of the sliding off of the optimism from Trump voters that say, I think things are going to get better.

Like they just see things getting worse.

Yeah, and I think, like, to the extent that we now take—our signals are all so bifurcated and everywhere, but they all come together in this thing that we now call vibes.

And one of the things I talk about in the book is the rise of the vibes voter.

And, like, the vibes are bad, and Trump's vibes are bad.

And, you know—

And it's funny that the way you just said it, which is around corruption and things, a lot of the things about doing the focus groups is you get a lot of specifics into that.

It's like, what are people angry about?

Well, they're angry that Trump lied and said we weren't going to get into these stupid wars.

And now we're at war with Iran.

They're upset about Epstein.