one of the great try jumps of the republican party and i say this as a former republican, we got democrats to internalize the democratic party. that by telling them that, you know, if you criticize lewis dejoy, you re taking out, you re dumping on the united states of america. if you don t if one person is suffering, you re not living up to the promise of your party. yeah. and i think republicans really got inside the heads of democrats about this. they did. they need to let go of that. it s time for them to step up because it s not about party. it s about them being the only party left that cares about democracy. get it together. dean abdallah, tom nickles, thank you. still ahead, i recently talked to a member of the tribe of north carolina and the chairman of the tribe about how indigenous people really feel about thanksgiving. it was a fascinating discussion
use hand signs commonly associated with white supremacy? that s a good question. i didn t know the okay hand sign was a symbol of white supremacy like i didn t know the people in the bar was proud boys. they were set up by my former attorney who was fired for putting me in situations like that with people i don t agree with. it included the protrump attorney whom rittenhouse called insane for his belief in qanon and likening himself to god. with me now host of the dean abdallah show and tom nickles, contributing writer for the atlantic. this chic of sort of wrapping their articles around kyle rittenhouse as what j.d. vance calls manly values, a 17-year-old whose mom drove him to city he doesn t live in. that s not a positive force in his community. he didn t live there. these aren t businesses he knew
getting back to the big point, i sort of agree with tom. i don t think they are just doing this to troll us. they re embracing violence as part of the arsenal of weapons they prepared to use against democrats going forward. that s the reality. this is not oh, democrats don t like people getting killed in the streets so we ll troll them. it s deep within that. you have in the same week last week over 200 republicans defending paul gosar by refusing to condemn him when he put out a fantasy enough video literally killing a.o.c. trump had a statement afterwards i stand with paul gosar. you have j.d. vance that garbage going on and 55% of voters in a july poll saying january 6th was not an act of terrorism, it was an act defending freedom. we have a gop that s not just authoritarian. authoritarian plus violence equals fascism. that s what we re dealing with. so i don t think they re just
cats what to do about the economy. he s not a seller but a normal guy so that when he talks he sounds like a normal person so he could in theory get out there and say look, i get that it s taking a long time to get the couch you ordered but the economy is really good. tom, i ll stay with you on this, a, do you think it would matter in an environment where the other party has gone full political violence? would it even matter if biden tried to do the normal political thing of selling the economy? yeah, i think it might but there is a problem in the democratic party where if there is if people say look, i m unemployed or suffering or my family is running into trouble, democrats by their nature so okay, then things aren t good whereas the republicans and regan in particular had a real talent for saying i understand that and but, you know, things are improving. things are better. democrats feel guilty about doing that when they know
trolling us. i won t be surprised the next rnc they have kyle rittenhouse reenact the next shooting. i think it deeper. it s an embrace in violence and a warning call for all americans, you don t want violence, the gop is telling us what they re doing in front overus. tom, i ll come back to you on this. we re going to have you guys back on the next segment. there is a celebration of violence as a part of american culture, you know, whether it was the idea of the western, the wild west violence, not even the way the wild west was or the kind of celebration and sort of luxury violence that for a long time allowed men to believe, white men to believe they could do what those men did to ahmaud arbery. that has to be in you to believe you re free to use violence for whatever reason to get what you want including for politics and that is what i worry about, too. they re aculture rating a teenager into violence.