different from everybody else s reality. so then what are you saying then? because you write in the book, i think you say you talk about the horror of forgetfulness. you say president trump s neurosis is horror of forgetfulness or senility. i want you to explain that, especially in the context of what you re writing about the president in this book, about him not recognizing friends, the succession of friends who came to mar-a-lago. what are you saying about the president? i am i am just reporting the facts on the ground. so i am saying i m not a doctor. and but obviously you don t have to be a doctor to find it notable and alarming that as everyone on his staff does, that he repeats and repeats and repeats the same thing in the same conversation. i mean, everybody has to stand
presidential debate stage talking about his genitals, the size of his package on television, that person is obviously where could that lead? he could end up he never got into the oval office. people would laugh at you. well, of course, if he ever got to the oval office, he would not behave this way. this is just antics for the campaign trail. this is how you get attention at the debate and here we are two years ago, the man is talking about the size of his button in the oval office on the topic of nuclear war. this reraises the topic of his mental health. we re at a point where a convergence of his inedadequaci, his neurosis has impacted us as
ed: right. pete: it is what it is. it doesn t prove anything. if you turn the channel, you will watch people this doubt this dot this dot to russia. don t change it because they will be all russia, russia, russia. like the headlines of all of our papers this morning. it proves nothing but people are going to go spastic about it. rachel: we already knew flynn had a shady past. his relationship with the government of turkey. i m surprised he wasn t charged on that by the way. pete: he made a deal. rachel: i will say that s correct. i will say. this i think russia, russia, russia. presents some problems for the democrats. the more they focus on russia, russia, russia, the less they are focusing on wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan and really figuring out, really doing some soul searching to figure out why they lost the election. they did not lose the elections because of russia. they lost the election for a bunch of other reasons including immigration, including of the economy. ed: jobs
and central part of american conservative. conservatism as trolling is central part of what it s about. and not just him and your profile connected him to trump and bannon and other. these are men, overwhelmingly men who clearly have profound neurosis about sinking in a world in which women and minorities are powerful who project anxiety into hatreds that aren t even real hatreds. they re phony. many people jewish in the administration are playing with anti-semitic fire. people who grew up in diverse places like him who you know, donald trump is from manhattan. a manhattan democrat. something connecting that too. steve bannon is goldman sachs, harvard and hollywood and he s the voice of middle america. to the people who felt
can t get inside his mind as 16 or 17-year-old but sort of kind of prankster provocateur shtick that s part of his thing. and central part of american conservative. conservatism as trolling is central part of what it s about. and not just him and your profile connected him to trump and bannon and other. these are men, overwhelmingly men who clearly have profound neurosis about sinking in a world in which women and minorities are powerful who project anxiety into hatreds that aren t even real hatreds. they re phony. many people jewish in the administration are playing with anti-semitic fire. people who grew up in diverse places like him who you know,