Tim Miller

Vast majority of folk are not watching this stuff.

They're not paying attention the way that you and I are paying attention.

But last night, many were forced to because they were waiting for Survivor or whatever else they wanted to watch at 9 o'clock at night on TV or 6 o'clock on the West Coast.

And all of a sudden, this figure, who's kind of sort of in the pop culture all the time, and sometimes they're entertained by him,

He shows up and he's yelling and he's screaming at them without any of the negative charisma that he's had these last 10 years that keeps you watching all the time.

It actually felt like a really bad Trump impersonator.

It was humorless.

And even when he said Merry Christmas and Happy New Year at the very end, it sounded like he was putting a curse on us.

So there's something about how a mask came off last night for people who don't pay as much attention as you and I do on this that I hope is penetrating and has some durability as people have to ask some really important questions of themselves and about the future of this country in 2026.

Yeah.

Two things you said that strike me.

One is I like that you said it was humorless because sometimes a lot of people on the left, myself included, like I don't really find it funny.

Right.

It's hard to like process that other people do.

Yeah.

You know, and a lot of times his presentation, things that might come off as cruel or dumb to me.

College educated progressives like code is kind of funny for regular folks, but he didn't have that.

There was none of the kind of Trumpian joie de vivre last night, none of the joking.

And it felt like there was a dearth of offering a counter narrative for people.

who are actually going through tough times, you know, I keep saying that, like it was easy for him to convince a bunch of people that the election was stolen because that didn't affect them at all.