katie porter. our decision desk has not gone that far yet, but you can certainly see where this looks like it s going. that would be a democratic pickup in orange county. that would leave only one republican seat left in orange county, which is this one, the 39th district. look what happened there tonight. every night some more votes are being reported out here, and tonight for the first time, the democrat gil cisneros has taken the lead over young kim, the republican in this district. cisneros now leads the trend, clearly favors him. the trend favors democrats in the late voting races. if this holds, and if the 45th district holds, there will be zero republican members of congress from orange county, california, bastian of reaganism once in the next congress. that would be another major milestone. a couple other races uncalled still. democrats could be at about 39 seats when this all shakes out. probably a few more days from now. also in florida, you mentioned the fiasco there with th
passionate reasons, i possibly overstated the point. don t read your twitter feed. we love your passion. but there are people our identities are always allied with the moral choice. can we just we all know people, i m sure, who were on the list of the pipe bomber. passion defines this moment in american politics. if this is a conversation about american politics, if it didn t have passion, it wouldn t be real. that s absolutely true. we re all having to face a choice about who we take ourselves to be. and i think what the abbott/o rourke voter signals, i think is a broader political realignment. you know this environment better than i do. but the age of reaganism has collapsed. it s become trumpism. clintonism is dead. in interesting sorts of ways. the party is trying to figure out itself. post this midterm and post 2020, i don t know what the political landscape will look like because
america. what is it, tony, that s resonating 20 years later? i don t know. i think it s a good time to bring it back. i think it s a time for remembering. that s resonating. it s been play appeared, which was about five or six years after the beginning of the aids epidemic, eight or nine years, and i think that a lot of people who are going to see it now are having the experience of remembering the very, very difficult time of the 1980s. the play is very critical of the political movement that began with ronald reagan, with reaganism, which has i think reached its malevolent, you know, ultimate flowering with the trump presidency, and i think the play is a hopeful thing but it s set in 1985, 1986 so in the middle of the reagan
stifling it. conservative under reagan a potent force. a patriotic alternative to the malaise and pessimism of the 1970s. the fact kuehl at this and the administration of administration of campuses became dominated by liberals desperate to turn young minds away from reaganism in the america he represented. with these activists maintained, let s face it as inherently racist and sexist, because its founders were privileged white men. conservatives challenging the liberal orthodoxy on campus were sued, maligned, and they were maligned by students and professors alike. they were subject to disciplinary action and even physically threatened. the ultimate goal was to bully them into silence. of course, that effort failed. conservatives probably now see how naive it was to believe that this squelching