trump? well, let me tell you why i think it s so difficult to do that. because as you re talking about this therapy session, as mary was talking earlier about religious complex, it took me back to my 12 years of catholic school where i had to learn how to wear a jacket and ties and shoes that could hold a shine. because that language always stuck with me. so when you think about trump s language in this moment when he says, you know, i was indicted for you, it just reminds and should remind all of us that trump doesn t see himself as a candidate, he sees himself as an evangelist. he s not campaigning. he s proselytizing. and if you look at it through that lens, you realize why it is so difficult to extricate so many folks who joined in on that movement to bring them back to some semblance of reality. he sees himself as a martyr. and quite frankly, if i think the argument that folks are using against what he s doing,
laura: and, matt, is that where the extremism angle would work for republicans as kind of a deflection? like you want to see extremism, look at what they endorse, and then you go to the, you know, crazy gender bending stuff and the proselytizing to the children about all these issues. is that how you would, that? it s certainly going to work with a certain segment of the voters and it will have a play in all of this. i don t know. byron just nailed it on the head. there is always a shiny object to look at, maga extremists, whatever, that seems to divert attention and once again as i said, a lot of the media aids that as we all know and you agree laura. so we re going to have to see where this goes. laura: byron, matt, great to see both of you, have a great rest of the weekend
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the migration pattern of the mexican gray wolf. but i also worry about the pattern of violent criminals and drugs crossing our now open border. i ve seen the environmental disaster along the rio grande with my own eyes back in 2019 trash debris scattered on these once beautiful grassy banks. and of course, it all ultimately ends up in the gulf of mexico, tossed by the illegal aliens crossing into america. we ve had pasture land burned by illegals. we ve had lots, lots of trash left behind. it s and it s only getting worse. and it s because of all the policies that the biden administration has rolled back that the trump administration put into place and was working. and then there are evs now. we couldn t even escape the proselytizing about that during the super bowl. general motors is going electric and netflix is joining in by including more ivs in their movies and shows. at least they can do so if
i think one of the problems is it s not just that the president is just not up to par here when it comes to dealing with the economy. he s surrounded himself literally with idealogue of the left. i mean, you can go up and down the line and think of the most economically astute person in the white house right now. is probably brian deese. right. this is the head of the nsc national economic council before he went to washington, he spent a couple of years at blackrock, the big money management firm. now, he wasn t there managing money and handling portfolios and trading stocks that would give some some relevant experience to the economy. he was there pushing the company to adopt esg environmental social standards ,not to make money, not to figure out markets to. he was essentially a green advocate within blackrock. he was proselytizing about this . that is esg stuff and he s probably the best guy they got. janet yellen, let s try it. i mean, like to go . he misses everything when it co