thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
so, we have a dominant figure, almost always, there s somebod who is dominating. but the magnitude of their dominance, their overall importance to their media, right-wing media ecosystem, it just shrinks as right-wing media, overtime, diversifies and becomes a lot of different things, and something that exists on a lot of different platforms. so, there will never b somebody as big as the biggest guys of the past secondly, what you see over an over and over again, i don t really why this hasn t sunk in and became kind of a thing tha we make fun of these guys for. but when you really look at it it becomes quite clear tha dominance inside conservativ media, it doesn t tend to cros over into any kind of majo influence. i mean, yeah, you can fill chicago on a labor day weekend in 1936 with your sweaty fervent screaming supporters but you can t get your
platoon leaving, shane scherer, got a massive head wound. other guys got sprinkled with shrapnel. to have that instant, you know, action and that reality check right off the bet really helped set the tempo to know what to prep the guys for, but it also gave you that instant sense of, we re not over here selling girl scout cookies, guys. we re in a real fight. romesha and his men knew it was not a question of if there would be a major attack but when.
get in a room with him, have a conversation as a ceo. sounds like a great idea. let s move on that, but he does so many other things that make it hard to be in that situation. and for politicians as well. you don t know if he s going to spout off on you the second you leave the room or the second you pass some legislation really hard to pass and three days later he s trashing it. mitch mcconnell. right. or going after a ceo who leaves the board instead of going after naming white nationalists. what are the priorities here, that s fire say. and what he tweets tells us what is most important to him, driving his own internal statement. yes, read a statement yesterday from a teleprompter three days after charlottesville. sources say the same of yours, mr. president, clean it up. do a better job. took three days for an american president to say neo-nazis are bad. shocking in its own right. then the pure trump in the twitter feed, mad at these guys