nato application to be ratified, it is making preparations for the border with russia. i will talk to the foreign finish minister what he thinks putin s next move will be. but first, here is my take. ron desantis emailed me and hundreds of thousands of others i imagine. our country is currently facing a great threat he began. i assume that with inflation soaring, gas prices still sky high and the economy in danger of slowing down, he would hit hard on those themes. but these bread and butter issues were not mentioned anywhere in the email. a new enemy has emerged from the shadows that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to transform the state and country you and i would hardly recognize. as you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical enemy vigilante. some of this is a clever effort to tap into the base of the republican party and out flank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the reason new h
highlighting the most extreme abortion bans passed in republican states and branding the republican party with them. in oklahoma, abortions are now banned with very few exceptions from the moment after conception on wards. in mississippi, a doctor could face ten years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. yet, democrats have another big weak spot and it centers on performance. democrats in power often seem unable to get anything done. democrats squabble more and more in public than republicans despite the fact that much of the gshop party establishment despised donald trump. once elected, they fell align and passed his agenda and supported him unfailingly. democrats rarely remind the public of the two big bills they did pass, covid relief and infrastructure and spent months bickering over the third one,