it s a distortion. throughout the ivory league and elsewhere, and the elite schools, there are free speech mandates really to permit these speakers. it is as heather points out, just the sort of outliers who get focus i want to go back to the issue, if this were simply a debate about conservatism versus populism, it would be one thing, but it s trump s character, dan, that frankly complicates the debate for the right. well, it does, although, i think there s two problems with the pregame party has, and two different debates that they re having. there s the debate that was o during pre-donald trump which was, in a sense kind of a ted cruz view of the world versus the marco rubio view of the world. do we need a hard line conservative to carry our banner or do we need to have something that someone who reaches out and expands the coalition? that debate got smothered in 2016 my donald trump who brought in populism. now you have this multiple clash within the party. and trump s be
this? broken politics with two parties liking for their identities. i will talk to jeff flake. and how republicans got the majority in the house, state houses, and the white house. joining me for insight and analysis are andrea mitchell, dan bouls, heather mcghee, and david french, senior writer for the national review.
it s about fighting, fighting we can fighting. it s funny you say that. listen to mitch mcconnell, we have audio, fancy farm pick mic, here s his explanation for the upside of not getting health care done, take a listen. even on the night we came up one vote short of our grand reveal to replace obamacare. feel better, hillary clinton could be president. talk about just underscoring david s point right there, dan. and it s, you saw that with president trump this weekend in west virginia. the same kind of message. it s an antianti message. there s little that either side frankly has put up positively since trump was elected president and before that. i don t think that we know this didn t start with donald trump, this condition that we re in, but that, that is what s driving. if you look at the statistics on how people feel about their own party over the last 25 years, it s basically the same. they feel as good about their party as they did 20 or 25 years