the new york times magazine and from the l.a. times eli stokolses is hit. let me start with you, heather. we have been here for some of the lowest moments of the trump presidency, and some of the human calamities at the border and whatnot. yesterday was a setback for trump but and we re going to get to this in this sort of distortion field, they did an end zone dance. i thought the story coming out of puerto rico, it was just as unlikely that corrupt governor would be taken down by a process in the statehouse and protests on the streets. but there is sort of a kernel of that story i wonder if the democrats will try to scale nationally in. i think it would be beautiful if they did. i think the scale of the protest was massive. you had one of about every three people on the islands and those are the official counts. others are unreliable. at the same time there s a hole right before the 2018 midterm that showed in fact one out of
2020. we need to bring donald trump s broken promises home, that has to be a part of the democratic story, right. when elizabeth warren talks about pea tatriotism, the probl with 2016 is donald trump took the core message and populism to be upset at corporations and talking about draining the swamp. david duke and a little bit from occupied walls and created a political frankenstein. that s right and that was working around the world. but it s time for the democrats, if they won t get anywhere near ohio and a lot of the places in the industrial midwest without economic populism. the economic populism for democrats is more true, it s more authentic and they actually have plans and records to back it up, many of them do. i would love to see that phony populist versus real populist go head to head. think about it though, joe biden is not an economic poll u
why are you nodding? i completely agree. that is a tool in the arsenal of the left and democratic party that they have not used. min i mean, they have shown on a couple of occasions, one being the women s march which by the way drove donald trump bat bleep crazy. yes, and the gun march after parkland. they have shown they can do this. they have the numbers to do this. i think one very powerful march on washington, i don t know when it is or what the gathering cry would be, could be an extremely powerful thing as we saw in puerto rico. i think there is an analogy here which people forget but in 2010, the single biggest demonstration that the right had during the obama years, remember the glenn beck thing in like 2010. middle of the summer. like august 28th. i happened to be writing a story on this so i remember exactly. they got probably close to about a million people around the mall. it was a pretty memorable moment. it was the one cohesive moment
that from my vcr? and i know that s gross. but it questions his wealth, questioning the size of his report and his intelligence. so joe s point is hit him where the crowd gets under his skin. a crowd bigger than his does that. it s true and fairly obvious, maybe when the democrats have one person to gather around, that he or she can knockofocus donald trump and how to do that. right now there s a lot of focus inter-muehrly. but you re right. no democrats from what i can tell or not a lot of democrats have gone to like ohio, lordstown, for instance and highlighted the things donald trump supporters were very excited about, him bringing jobs back and highlighting the fact the economy is not helping anyone bring much to the heart of his base. the other piece of the port leakio story, and this didn t get as much attention earlier in the week, there was an investigation into the legislature and that investigation found i think five
his face. he s minimizing this in plain sight. that s something there s nothing hitten abodden about th. it s all the out in the open. mcconnell blocking the bills. you have to watch what they do. if they re blocking these bills, they don t care about outside interference and inviting it from any country. we have been talking about trump s brand. his brand is the opposite of what supporters in ohio think it is. he s so weak, he s so impotent, he can t win without big, bad vladimir putin. i actually think and i hear this too from garrett haake, we re not asking about russia because we don t know what russia does. they help donald cheat at politics the way donald trump cheats at golf. it s central to his brand. exactly. i think that is part of what could be a larger story the democrats tell, which is really directed to a lot of donald trump s supporters and potential supporters, which is what does this guy actually accomplish on your behalf? is the swamp drained? is obama care go