we were one. we weren t democrats, we weren t republicans, we were americans. we had been attacked. one nation under god, indivisible. there was a moment. and then it didn t last very long, and then it went away, and we started to divide, and there was another moment, particularly for the republican party, after romney lost to obama, and claire would know better than i, but reince priebus said, we need to open the tent and he got the doors slammed in his face. there were the days of tip o neill, ronald reagan, took a couple of drinks into the room, shut the door, came out with a deal. boehner and obama were talking about a grand bargain and then boehner got his leash jerked and he took it and went right out of congress.
after, i remember a moment when we were one. we weren t democrats, we weren t republicans, we were americans. we had been attacked. one nation under god, indivisible. there was a moment. and then it didn t last very long, and then it went away, and we started to divide, and there was another moment, particularly for the republican party, after romney lost to obama, and claire would know better than i, but reince priebus said, we need to open the tent and he got the doors slammed in his face. there were the days of tip o neill, ronald reagan, took a couple of drinks into the room, shut the door, came out with a deal. boehner and obama were talking about a grand bargain and then boehner got his leash jerked and
with the politics and what senator mccaskill said is exactly right. people like pete ricketts, they re scamming the very voters they claim to care about. j.d. vance who says he s a man of the people and a populist and cares about the working man. he s going to represent them. it s those people that are dying. it s not ron desantis in florida who we have an article coming up in a minute about how he had a press conference today with anti-vaxxers where they were spreading misinformation behind the seal of florida. it s not ron desantis that s dying. he got the vaccine. it s the people he invited to the press conference that is going to die. and all of these people all of these republicans who are making this argument in the posture of saying they are the populists, they are there for the people. it is a scam. and so, yeah, i don t see how you cannot feel sympathy for victims of a scam and that is
hospital. i don t want this to be mandated but i want everyone to get vaccinated. i don t like this policy but i want every single person in my state to get mandated. i don t want you to have to read between the lines at all whether i think this is trustworthy. that is not what he s doing. he was playing into their anti-vax views by saying there s a lack of trust. governor desantis, as i said, is doing the same thing in a press conference. i think that is a really important distinction that shows how irresponsible it is for republicans, and i also think in the end it s going to be really bad politics for those, unfortunately not governor ricketts who is in a safe red state. others i think will not work in their favor. i want to pull politics aside and read a story that undid me this weekend. nbc news reported a california couple died of covid, left behind five kids including a newborn daughter. i m not going to read from it
the death knell for them, the republican party. in the runup to the election, the emd of the republican party. which when they tried to get sarah palin through, they ve just been off the rails. and i think out in the midwest where i live in michigan, we re not stupid. we know bs when we see it. and i think the people i m around, and, yes, there are those who are very pro-trump and flying the flags and still singing the songs, but there are a lot of people who are over it. they just want someone to tell them the truth like in the swing county in michigan. they were reagan democrats or biden republicans and trump came through michigan in 2016 and