announce to everybody who won the precinct. that s exciting viewing. i found the reporting that you had with some voters who said they were afraid to tell their friends and neighbors that they did not support donald trump any longer because they were afraid of the vitriol they would face. i wonder if there s potential to see the opposite of what we saw in 2016. i just think it s a really interesting case where we had voters back then not telling pollsters, you know, not telling reporters who they really supported, obviously outside of trump rallies, and pulling the lever for donald trump in the secrecy and privacy of the space. i wonder what the social pressure is right now among republicans in republican corners of republican states, especially, to say, hey, listen, i m not really a fan of this guy any longer. i kind of want to take a chance on someone else. reporter: you know, and that s part of the opportunity by not having a democratic caucus this time around is that
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to it. for those of us that actually live on planet earth, those of us that actually have some sanity, i am serious when i ask you this, jason, i know there s a lot of laughter and humid the cars out of what you do. i will give you guys credit. you don t mock the people you interview. you re very deadpan. you ask straight questions. you cannot guarantee the answers that come. i want context for our viewers. i want them to understand that when you go to these events, there is a level of a delirium and or kind of alternate reality that they are living, and right? speak frankly about what you experience when you doing this. it depends, people ask about when you go to these trump rallies, when you talk to these people. how many of them believe truly believe. yeah, it s a sample audience. these people love donald trump to go there. they are the people that have fallen down the online rabbit hole. they got red peeled. qanon, all that stuff. we talk to somebody outside
we ve lived with violent extremists for decades. right? especially on the right. you can go back to the 90s, 2000s. eric rudolph, you know, the oklahoma city bomber. what we re seeing now, though, is not just these far fringe individuals. we re seeing regular individuals that are being radicalized. and what happens is there s a central theme in radicalization and domestic extremism, and that s this theme of aggrievement. this theme of someone s taking something away from you, life isn t going to be what it used to be for you, they re coming to get you. and you see these things play out in real time at some of these trump rallies. they re not coming after me, they re coming after you and i m the only person to stand behind in front of you. so what happens is you need this sense of aggrievement, this sense of existential threat to really mobilize radicalization, which is not illegal, to the pathway of violence, which is clearly illegal. and that mobilization process