Tim Miller

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.

Right.

Like they don't know anything about the voting machines.

Like, so you're, you're creating a counter world for people that they can accept.

That's right.

It's hard to create a counter world for people that like, Oh, the affordability crisis isn't happening when they're experiencing it every week, when they go to the grocery store, you know, and just ranting 11 months in about how Joe Biden was terrible and,

doesn't quite feel sufficient.

The speech begins with, I inherited this mess, and then he does another kind of rehearsal of American carnage, right?

He goes through the litany of all the things that were screwy in this country before he walked in and launched this new golden era as exemplified by all the gilding that we see behind him.