i ve been a republican my whole life. even though i am running as an independent in missouri, i am still a republican. the fact is that donald trump did not win the election. part of living in a democracy is that you accept the results of the election, even if your candidate or party does not win. you are not entitled to vote for the winner. republicans are paying quite a price. if you are a republican running as an independent, largely because you realize the price to pay to the price of emitting the truth. this is also a selfless feeling prophesy. i want to take you back to 2016 when trump was running, i was working under paul ryan s leadership when he was speaker of the house. we are worrying about him rising within the republican pack because he would do immense brand damage to the gop. that feels like an incredibly naive understatement because he is done greater brand homage to the gop, it s the entire country. but to republicans, it is long sustaining damage. he is an exempla
candidate or your party doesn t win. you can t vote you re not entitled to vote for the winner. miles, i mean, republicans are paying quite a price. i mean, you re a republican running as an independent largely i m sure because the price it s paid for admitting what s the truth. well, this is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. i want to take you all the way back to 2016. when trump was running, i was working under paul ryan s leadership when he was speaker of the house. we were worried about him even rising in the republican pact because he was going to do immense brand damage to the gop. that feels like a naive understatement because he s done incredible damage to the entire country. but to republicans, it s long-standing, sustained damage. and john wood here is an exemplar of what happens because of that. you ve got lifelong republicans running as independents. i know in the last segment we joked about numbers. i want to bring numbers into this though.
driven by negative partisanship. what musk might be reacting to is the cultural irritants from the far left. these are the complaints that get filed under woke culture. talk of trigger warnings and critical race theory, defund the police and debates over gender identity that have dominated republicans midterm message. they deploy these culture war issues because they work. even when underline policies like defund the police are not supported by vast majority of elected officials. the activist class either doesn t understand the brand damage they do or they don t care. here s the ironic part. the place these cultural debates play out the most, other than is social media. a small number of super users make up the vast majority of tweets. so, musk might be reacting to a twisted vision of political debates on the platform that he now wants to control.
be irritating. he doesn t have to be engaged in fist and cups all the time. he can be a healer and a fighter. depending on the venue. but what he is not doing is that he is not being the leader of the democratic party. and they are not doing any brand damage to the republican party. even though they have many opportunities. the conservatives meet in hungary and just like a big fat one over the plate for biden he doesn t swing at. it he doesn t really swing at anything. and he needs to. because his party, which is where most of the erosion, is he didn t have any republican support, it has been among democrats and independents. and many of them want to see him get out of there and do what politicians are supposed to do. mix it up. not fdr didn t just have one enemy. the rich. that was mostly in just a couple of speeches. he always had different targets
president be seen as fighting for something, and often fighting against something. and democrats in particular want their president to be a fighter. that doesn t mean he has to be trump, but he doesn t have to be irritating, he doesn t have to be engaged in fisticuffs all the time. he can be a healer and a fighter, depending on the venue. but what he s not doing is he s not being the leader of the democratic party. and they re not doing any brand damage to the republican party, even though there are many opportunities. you know, the conservatives meet in hungary, and just like a big fat one over the plate for biden. he doesn t swing at it. he doesn t really swing at anything. and he needs to. because his party, which is where most of the erosion is. the erosion has been among