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It doesn't work if you didn't, like... If you didn't transition from, like, Walter Cronkite into that, that's not going to work for you anymore.
But I do think... So this is like a... It's, you know, I was just looking at this the other day, though, where it's like, which is really, you know, even to me is...
kind of something I would not have been able to even fathom or predict a couple years ago.
But the way in which every demographic has turned against Israel over this shit in Gaza, except essentially boomer Republicans who are still as strong as they've ever been in supporting them.
But every... You know, Israel is...
It's really in many ways like the third rail of American politics.
This is the thing you are not allowed to talk about.
This is the thing that would get you fired from CNN, would get you kicked out of D.C., would get your career ruined.
Pat Buchanan made a joke once on the McLaughlin Group like years ago, like decades ago.
He made a joke once where he said something about โ he said Congress is Israel-occupied territory or something like that.
And for the rest of his career, this was the scandal.
Hit pieces were written about this.
The young people are totally outside of that ecosystem and they're just hearing from different people and they're like, no, I'm not buying it.
And it's you know, I think it's a mix of a few things.
Like I think it's it's just that, you know, we have the technology.
You can see what Israel is doing to Gaza.
It is so evil that it's damn near impossible to to find a way.
I mean, some people do, but it is really difficult to find a way to be like, I'm actually OK with that.