Sarah Longwell

You can't beat it, right?

There's no way.

But, you know, time goes on and people do get tired and events do matter.

Like, Joe Biden lost for a lot of reasons, but one of them, and then Kamala Harris, one of them was just where inflation was and people feeling, in fact, that was a major one.

And so, like, I want people to not lose hope that nothing can change because I do think...

whether it's Trump's age, which is a real issue, right?

For I think he's lost a step.

Like he's not the same person.

He's the same person in the sense that he's evil and corrupt, but he's not the same person in that he is as good at deflecting it, as good at controlling the narrative as he once was.

And at some point, the wheels can come off.

And this feels as close as we've been in a long time.

I'll tell you somebody who is not going to be running for president in 2028, and that's Eric Swalwell.

A guy who was once kind of an up-and-comer.

He was leading in the gubernatorial race out in California.

He dropped out this weekend after what are a number of credible charges of sexual assault.

I'll just leave it at sexual assault because there's a lot of different things flying around.

And I gotta say, my main takeaway from this, because this started Friday, he was out by Sunday, Democrats turned on him quickly once it was clear the allegations were proven, which actually led then a lot of people to say, oh, well, it was an open secret what kind of guy he was and how he behaved, which then led a lot of response to say, well, if this was such an open secret, why didn't somebody say something sooner?

And so there's a little bit of all of that going around.

I have two main thoughts that I'm gonna lay out.

One is,