be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
Setbacks. nothing speaks more of that than race. i think that was why donald trump s victory in 2016 was so shocking in many ways. there was an assumption, maybe, that america s first african-american president, what a breakthrough that was. it almost felt to me like an end of history moment. but it wasn t the end of american history. there was a feeling that obama might be followed into office by america s first female president. again, this idea of progress and advancement. but what happened instead, of course, was you got a racist, misogynist as president. now, even after january 6th, when an american sitting president incited insurrectionists to storm the capitol, to try to overturn a clear-cut presidential result, he is still the republican nominee. what happened after those insurrectionists were cleared from capitol hill? so many republican lawmakers went back into the chambers where they d run for their lives and voted again to challenge and overturn the election.