washington tonight. it s been months since a trans gunman shot up that covenant school and months since we have been demanding to see that manifesto released. well, tonight, we have new details about what was going through audrey hale s head as she stalked the school hallway. but, first, the old man hangs on. that he was the focus of tonight s angle. now, the other cable networks were going wall-to-wall with war coverage today but the focus wasn t israel s war against hamas it was a hacked prosecutor s war against trump and the courts. this case has made him angrier than almost any other case. i m really flabbergasted right now. i have never seen anything like this in all of my time of being a lawyer. let trump hang himself, essentially in this trial. laura: now, more on the legal angle later. but the reason they devoted what, 8, 9 hours of coverage to the trial has less to do with its merits than when the recent polls that show trump trouncing biden. in five key battle
only very slight improvement in recent weeks. what s the story here? i think it s the story of a relative political outsider who was able to use, a part from anything else, new new technolo hijack the republican party, win the nomination against the republican establishment, and then run an extraordinarily unorthodox campaign, which provoked and alienated as many people as it attracted, and yet because of the way that the ground game of the trump campaign was played, secured victory through the electoral college. so, i don t think it s at all mysterious that president trump is a relatively unpopular president. he ran a very unorthodox and inflammatory campaign, a polarizing campaign, and in some ways he s a classic populist. the kind of figure we ve seen in american politics in the past, and populists do have this difficulty that they are
country. officially the unemployment rate is low, crime is low, technology makes life easier than ever before. for many, you may have noticed this there is a sense of decline and even desperation it ss omnipresent in some places. amazing new piece entitled art miserable 21st centuries, he highlights the help scape that is some of america. p opioid addiction, existential despair. the article draws heavily from men without work: america s invisible crisis, he joins us in the set. the most depressing title i ve ever read.e he is the most depressing piece ever this year, it s so true. and it explains where we are. how does this happen? we entered the 21st century with the makings of a classic populist reaction. we ve got a stock market that s going upwards and upwards and upwards, more wealth than ever before, a pretty crummy economy, the bottom has dropped out of the labor market.
country, officially the unemployment rate is low, crime is low, technology makes life easier than ever before. for many, you may have noticed this there is a sense of decline and even desperation it s omnipresent in some places. political economist at the american enterprise institute. an amazing new piece entitled art miserable 21st centuries, he highlights the help scape that is some of america. existential despair, the article draws heavily from men without work america s invisible crisis, he joins us here in the set. it s a great piece it s got the most depressing title i ve ever read, it s the most depressing piece i ve read it this year yet it s so true and it explains why we are where we are politically. how did this happen? we entered the 21st century with the makings of a classic populist reaction. we ve got a stock market that s going upwards and upwards and upwards, more wealth than ever before, a pretty crummy economy,
charles postal has written a history of populism that won the bancroft prize, the most prestigious prize for american historians. richard writes for the national review, he had his first cover story in that magazine when he was 15 years old. he has written biographies of everyone from the founding fathers to william f. buckley. welcome to all of you. what do you think? is this a garden variety conservative movement? something more? i think it is conservative, but it has potential appeal to centrists. i think it has some of the the tea party has some of the style and spirit, if you will, of classic populist movements. it is anti-establishment, it is anti-elites. it is broad. it is spontaneous. it is still evolving. it is not something that is set. it is not part of the republican party. it is a critique of and challenge to that party, and we ll see how that goes, how that relationship plays out as the tea party evolves, but i