i m serious, we don t have people in congress who can make regulations, that can make it work. i think we can look to the western countries in europe for how they are trying to limit it but you need you need controls on this. you need regulation. you cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. we are there. trump opened the gates of hell and now they re chasing us down. that s hard, that s hard. this is your observation because you ve been covering this for days. i m not here to defend elon musk but, look, one of the things he said he wants to do who has been pointed to by some experts that could include discourse on the platform is authenticate people. get rid of what he calls the spam box, try to make people have real identities. would that go a long way in stopping some of the targeting, some of the harassment? i don t know but a lot of the changes he s talking about making, making the algorithm transparent. giving people access to the s
immigration, they re worried about crime, they re worried about the ability to make ends meet and those are the sorts of things if they feel they re not getting coverage from a certain media source on the things they re worried about, they ll go find it somewhere else. does that mean republican narratives are beating democratic narratives? when i hear you say they re worried about crime, i kind of hear a republican narrative. i don t think being concerned about crime is necessarily a republican narrative. i think a lot of swing voters would push back. i mean talk about the story a lot. i think the media does but this is a moment at least in the research i m seeing, swing voters in the middle, their priorities look a little more like the priorities of republican voters. back in 2018 i would have said the opposite. you had swing voters in the middle worrying about things like pre-existing conditions, health care and didn t like donald trump very much. in 2018, those swing voters
in ohio. yes, everyone is watching ohio in part because of trump s influence in that race. he endorsed j.d. vance recently. j.d. vance has no political experience. since then j.d. vance, according to one or two polls, has moved up in the polls, perhaps even taking a slight lead. including against josh mandell, who is the more conservative, christian conservative candidate who people like senator ted cruz are behind. everyone is watching this race to see if trump continues to have influence in the party, not only with his endorsements but if he can actually get voters to follow his lead. i have been talking to republicans for many months about this, and this is also a question they have to republican operatives in d.c. so it s not just us that are going to be watching, it s also people in the republican eco sphere too. what is vance s evolution tell you about the state of the gop? he was a cnn commentator and now he s tucker carlson s favorite. right. and he was anti-trump.
both biden and noah about the state of democracy. to me, it felt different than in past years pre-covid, pre-trump even. to me it felt like president biden wanting to talk about democracy versus autocracy, which is which is one of thinks favorite themes. it is. from the time he announced his candidacy, he announced that and it was a key insight and people kind of ignored it. now we see what s going on. i think he really did, the key phrase was that you just had up there, democracy is not a reality show. that s what is wrong with the culture. but don t we treat it like that? aren t we part of the problem? i try not to, and i think you try not to on this show. a lot of us do but a lot of people don t. that s the problem. that s the other problem with it. trevor noah i thought had a fantastic media critique that he left hanging in the air at the end of his address. let s go ahead and show that as well. if russian journalists who are losing their livelihoods as
it would never have occurred to me in prior years that we would have people in this country, even in leadership positions or in the orbit of leadership positions who would go along with something like this. and then you hear about mike flynn and this other former general writing up insane executive orders for the president potentially to sign about the military seizing voting machines and field marshall flynn. it is it sounds insane, but the insane doesn t sound so insane now because the president is continuing the former president is continuing to repeat this and may run again on this. it s terrifying. i really find it terrifying. and i agree with you that in the past it was unthinkable. pre-trump, it was unthinkable that these kinds of things could happen. honestly, even when donald trump was president, it wasn t