will again because i think it s a powerful comment. he writes owe the roosevelt republic when a social contract underwrote american life. it included a strong middle class, strong safety net, high marginal tax rates, a while male in the decades since the mid 1970s, you could call it the reagan republic, but i prefer the unwinding, the social contract has frayed to the point of disintegration. that s that i think is a very astute observation and is perhaps at the root of a lot of this. not just has the social contract completely fallen apart. again, until i would say this year we haven t even been having an honest conversation about the demographics of this country and what the social contract should look like, right? one of the things i contend about the republicans is that when they keep attacking government, they forget that probably more people have had a positive experience with some kind of government or have some kind of need for government than maybe in the past, and so t