from donors early on and then when they step oup into the klieg lights it s not great. we ll see. i remember mike bloomberg running for president among many others. among many others. and i will just say that i ve heard you, alysa, say so many times that when people are starting to use, to use your word, obituary, write donald trump s obituary, things change very quickly. he has a i don t know if it s a hold or a spell or something on a lot of these republicans, even those who are saying okay, but now we ve lost three times and now we re going to move away from donald trump. i will believe it when i see it. and the common wisdom is that elected republicans want it to be desantis but perhaps the base wants it to be trump. but even with elected republicans kevin mccarthy needs trump to get the speaker s nomination on the floor. now you have rick scott challenging leader mcconnell in the senate. he s doing that wanting the support of donald trump. and of course elise stephenic
ceiling is they are trying both chaos at the same time where they are selling order. so all right-wing authoritarian movements do this. it s how they come to power. they drive chaos through policies of cynicism and nilism and promise to restore order with scapegoats. it s important. we shouldn t talk about the issues without mentions these are minority voters alleged to have fraudulently voted. that s not so much hidden by a dog whistle as loudly screamed by the trump people and lawyers. and so there is that aspect of it, number one. and two, when you have mainstream leaders supposedly like elise stephenic, imagine someone with the last name of stephenic, engaging in replacement theory, white