they re suffering and you know it feels wrong to them. the republicans could say unemployment is x percent. someone would say i don t have a job. democrats say you re right, things are bad. regan would say i understand but you re going to have a job soon and that s the difference and i think especially with the republican party that has no optimism left that has no positive message left, that biden needs to step forward and to be that happy warrior because that s who joe biden used to be and the office clearly weighs on it. he could make that case, i think. and here is the thing, dean, i think that tom is right. democrats are sort of weighed down by their empathy where they re like if one person is down, they go my god, everything is terrible and go down and start to do the beans and start to fix the beans and make it work. other than bill clinton going i know things seem bad right now but let me play this saxophone and they would be like oh, and everybody would be distracted. democr
one of the great try jumps of the republican party and i say this as a former republican, we got democrats to internalize the democratic party. that by telling them that, you know, if you criticize lewis dejoy, you re taking out, you re dumping on the united states of america. if you don t if one person is suffering, you re not living up to the promise of your party. yeah. and i think republicans really got inside the heads of democrats about this. they did. they need to let go of that. it s time for them to step up because it s not about party. it s about them being the only party left that cares about democracy. get it together. dean abdallah, tom nickles, thank you. still ahead, i recently talked to a member of the tribe of north carolina and the chairman of the tribe about how indigenous people really feel about thanksgiving. it was a fascinating discussion
consumer enthusiasm and spending is up and supply chains are unclogged and yesterday biden released 50 million barrels of crude from the petroleum reserve that should lower gas prices in a few weeks. despite all of that, 70% of americans believe the economy stinks. it sounds like president biden might need to take a page from ronald reagan and learn how to sell, sell, sell. back with me my guests, be ever we jump into this conversation. you had something you wanted to add into the last segment. do that first and then we ll talk about the economy stuff. just quickly i wanted to agree with dean. this is not just simple trolling by republicans. these are people trying to create a culture of menace. this is what mccarthy is m would look like with a party with no decency. i cannot disagree with you. let s talk about this. this is happening at a time there is a normal political conversation going on among dell
that s happening and i don t know this judge in charlottesville but the judge in charlottesville praised the open white nationalist for how wonderfully they did in representing themselves and for being so wonderful in the courtroom and having such a civil trial. these people like danced when one of the victims talked about the pain they felt that being brutalized. this is about the death of a young woman. these people sort of laughed at her and i mean, the judge was praising that. there is something happening in our society, dean, where the right has this part of the right has decided that violence, killing, there is no tho shall not kill. violence. that judge said the mandate was unconstitutional so gives you an idea of his politics. he did stop richard spencer a few times during opening statements spewing hate.
sirius radio, dean abdallah. and so let s go to the president s son who liked the tweets about hogg and does it alarm you when people of prominent parties give credence to the lies. well, it is malicious or igno ignorance and either way, inexcusable. we have to be very diligent about this. we have to be, you know, i think it is incumbent upon all of us now to be skeptical of the things that we see. i would hope that the trump, that the president s son was not intentionally trying to advance this, you know, scurrilous rumor, but we have to be much better consumers of news. because it is so easy now for people to manipulate information and to put it out there and easier than it used to be. yeah, no doubt. and dean, it has been extraordinary to watch how these student survivors have been reacted to being a accused of