Tommy Vietor

And I think there's no place in America for political violence.

Full stop.

But I'm curious what you think the impact is of the vice president just refusing to say, yeah, you know what?

Those comments were out of line and I don't support that.

And like I'm not saying that these kids, these kids who weren't college kids, I'm not saying these people should be canceled for life or need to like.

go to prison somewhere.

But I wonder what the impact is of the vice president refusing to say, you know what, I'm not cool with joking about sending your political opponents to the gas chamber, for example.

Yeah.

And look, as much as these guys like to point the finger at Democrats and like, you know, lift up videos from protests on college campus and call us extremists like they have a real and growing right wing extremism problem.

Like, I don't know if you've seen the clips of Nick Fuentes going around and the things he says on his show.

But I would argue that this kind of this kind of commentary from these non kids is far more common than it was 10 years ago and is becoming kind of coin of the realm in a lot of these young MAGA circles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And now it's cool for Pete Hegseth to purge the U.S.

military of, you know, black people and women just because he assumes they were all put in there by DEI.

Like, yeah, the pendulum has flown way too far.

Yep.

We're in a crazy place.

Senator Shatz, thank you so much for doing the show.

Best of luck with these negotiations.