but also members of his mafia families and acquaintances that protected him. he clearly also had connections with several local politicians. and, so this is obviously a bad sign. so, it shows that the sicilian mafia still has considerable power locally. on the other hand, if one takes a kind of midterm perspective, it s clear, also, that the italian state has achieved incredible successes against the mafia since the early 90s. and finally, professor, would you expect this arrest to be the start of a broader shift against the mafia? well, i think it s more the culmination of the anti mafia policy. as i said, since the 90s there has been an incredible intensification of law enforcement action against the mafia, particularly
disintegrating as far as his brand and popularity, i don t see him disappearing, and i see him going back and running as an independent, a very different kind of independent, and he still holds that base. so, they have a problem. they have a major branding problem. i think if you polled 90% of republicans they old say go away, good-bye. they re stuck with him and with his grievance. and they have a problem for the foreseeable future. unless ron desantis can really rescue this far ti, this party is in deep, deep trouble. and the problem is, again, putting it in donny s terms, we ve been microtargeting. they keep microtargeting to people that are in the bubble. they keep trying to convert those who were already converted. they re talking to themselves. and so when you re losing the suburbs, when you re losing middle america, when you re losing swing voters, when you re just not going to win elections,
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grievance, the party of nothing, even after all of these losses, what do they come forward with? hunter biden s laptop. the republicans are lost. they can t get up. and the problem they have going forward is donald trump, although we see him disintegrating, i see him going back for a last segment, running as an independent, a very different kind of independent, and he still holds that base. so they have a problem. they have a major branding problem. i think if you polled 90% of republicans they d say good-bye, good. they re stuck with him. they re stuck with his grievance. and they have a problem for the foreseeable future. unless ron desantis can really rescue this party, this party is in deep, deep trouble. and the problem is, again, putting it in donny s terms, they re micro targeting. they keep micro targeting the people that are in the bubble. they keep trying to convert
for that. this is a disaster for the republican party. but they had it coming. there is only about six spines in the whole party, and trump must have a medical license because he obviously performed a spine x to me on most of the republicans in congress. what s the matter was standing up for america, no matter who says we ought to get rid of the constitution? and i think the republicans are in deep, deep trouble. eventually, they are going to reject trump, and i think their voters, because they have all the primaries throughout, i think trump s 40% is going to win him a lot of votes in the primary. unless he continues to self destruct. he s moving awfully fast in that direction, faster than expected. building on that, president biden seems to be rising. he s earning praise from longtime trump allies. new gingrich says the hostility is blinding them to just how effective biden has been. adding, we dislike biden so much, we patchouli focus on his