Wright Thompson

Yeah.

And like not the best of us, the absolute worst of us, our side, their side, your side, my side, they all suck.

Like Ross Barnett didn't have any principles.

He was kind of like a civil rights pioneer lawyer until he lost an election and decided he was never going to lose an election again.

If you want a great political deep dive, just go on newspapers.com and read Barnett.

Mississippi governor's election media coverage from the UPI and the AP through the 50s and 60s, because they said crazy shit on the stump.

I mean, like, you know, we'll get into the Emmett Till thing, but people forget that there was a incredibly hard fought primary entirely about Brown versus Board politics.

in 1955 in a governor's election.

And these people said wild shit from the stump.

And that election was on a Tuesday.

And on a Wednesday, Emmett Till and his cousins and friends went to that store and money.

And so like Mississippi has such a history of hack politicians saying crazy shit to get votes without really understanding the forces they're playing with.

One of the real problems with the sort of discourse around all this stuff, especially from the American left, is that you want everybody to be pure and nobody is pure.

We all have all of this in us.

I mean, you know, it's not to get like Catholic on you, but it's like, you know... This is a safe space for getting Catholic.

Everybody has sinners in them and everybody is trying for their better angels to win.

And, you know...

I have been kind to people.

I've been really mean to people.

It was interesting.