nato application to be ratified, it is making preparations for the border with russia. i will talk to the foreign finish minister what he thinks putin s next move will be. but first, here is my take. ron desantis emailed me and hundreds of thousands of others i imagine. our country is currently facing a great threat he began. i assume that with inflation soaring, gas prices still sky high and the economy in danger of slowing down, he would hit hard on those themes. but these bread and butter issues were not mentioned anywhere in the email. a new enemy has emerged from the shadows that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to transform the state and country you and i would hardly recognize. as you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical enemy vigilante. some of this is a clever effort to tap into the base of the republican party and out flank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the reason new h
radical enemy vigilante. some of this is a clever effort to tap into the base of the republican party and out flank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the reason new hampshire poll of likely republican primary voters that had desantis neck and neck with trump should worry, donald. the florida governor has much less name recognition than trump and yet, in a bellwether state, the floridian has caught up. but it also reflects the looming electoral strategy among republicans who believe they have found a deep vulnerability among democrats. a recent comprehensive new york times poll seemed to confirm this view. analyzing some of the findings of the poll, it was wrote many democrats both politicians and voters especially on the party s left flank see more focus on
highlighting the most extreme abortion bans passed in republican states and branding the republican party with them. in oklahoma, abortions are now banned with very few exceptions from the moment after conception on wards. in mississippi, a doctor could face ten years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. yet, democrats have another big weak spot and it centers on performance. democrats in power often seem unable to get anything done. democrats squabble more and more in public than republicans despite the fact that much of the gshop party establishment despised donald trump. once elected, they fell align and passed his agenda and supported him unfailingly. democrats rarely remind the public of the two big bills they did pass, covid relief and infrastructure and spent months bickering over the third one,
now for the last look, as americans seethe over high prices, it s worth remembering ininau inflation was at the heart of populism of america, not donald trump or bernie sanders but 1890s, the people s party. the populous party. they weren t complaining about inflation, it was something they desperately wanted. the u.s., you see, was going through a period of deflation from 1870 to 1890, prices fell by a cumulative 30% or 2% a year. that may sound like a good thing in today s environment, but deflation can cause all kinds of problems. one group negatively impacted, people in debt. think of a farmer getting fewer dollars for his crops every year but still on the hook for fixed mortgage payments. this dynamic contributed to the
but as you say, i ve heard this from other sources in the middle east, as well, the real the new story is that the saudis are talking to the iranians, i think largely through iraq. the uae is talking to iran. there seems to be an effort to create some kind of new motive between iran and saudi arabia and other gulf states to diffusion the tensions. that s indeed the case. the president tried to take credit in his speech in saudi arabia that there is now a seize fire in yemen. that seize fire actually owes a lot to the iranian saudi dialogue that s on going and it s very clear that the arabs want protection against iraq but they don t want the kind of aggressive policies that for instance, israel is following with iran that could risk a war. i think they ve made a decision that the united states is not going to go to war with iran. the united states is not focused