you know that region pretty well. talk to us about the long-term impact we may see from such devastation. look, syria is already something of a failed state where central control is this is misery heaped on misery. i m not sure how to characterize it. turkey, it s a more modern country. there s no civil fighting going on. the real question i think there is how does the government respond to it. you ve got elections coming up and so forth. for someone like erdogan who s been in power for a long time shall we say and is best illiberal, the question is can he use this in some ways to demonstrate his ability to deliver and remind people that he can still get some things done, or does this reinforce the sense it s time for him to go? and if that s the case does he resist it, and does turkey really head towards a fundamental political crisis on
make it a harder challenge for democrats in 2024. it is such a weirdly low bar. we should note they ll just to get a scope of this, the thought of his fascinating, this comes from a magazine which is fantastic reserves. they do this amazing election rundown, a look at local election, so it is just people check it out. bolts magazine. republicans gained only 22 legislative seats this fall out of more than 6000 them are on the ballot. so tim, contrary to my first point, i m now arguing against myself which i like to duke because an illiberal. contrary to the first point, the really bad candidates. there s something broader there, when you re only picking up 22 legislative seats across the country when there were hundreds picked up in 2010 another big wave elections? i would second that bolts is awesome, it s a great bag. i think that some of those lower candidates who are running for lower office, scott dragged down. i think things are related.
legislative seats this fall out of more than 6000 them are on the ballot. so tim, contrary to my first point, i m now arguing against myself which i like to duke because an illiberal. contrary to the first point, the really bad candidates. there s something broader there, when you re only picking up 22 legislative seats across the country when there were hundreds picked up in 2010 another big wave elections? i would second that bolts is awesome, it s a great bag. i think that some of those lower candidates who are running for lower office, scott dragged down. i think things are related. i think republicans did really well, democrats did poorly well in fighting state legislative races. democrats have not got back into that game, in a smaller field. they re a lot of facts at play here. obviously i think that
barnicle, welcome to the table. so here we are. i think we just have to, you know, our hair can t be on fire. we just have to identify people for what they are. ron johnson is anti-democratic. ron johnson, he s an illiberal, and just like orban, right, he ll accept elections if he wins those elections. he won t accept elections if the people vote against him. so, listen, again, no need to scream and yell, let s just put ron johnson down, let s write it down. he doesn t have faith in american democracy, he will undermine madisonian democracy if it gets in his way of accumulating more power. this is all black and white. we need to just keep that list on hand and understand ron
and on saturday night, it was florida governor rhonda santos rallying thousands of reallyasta enthusiastic fans out in longns island. we have a major problem in this country with rogue prosecutors who get into office, usually funded by people like george soros. and they say they wantinal jus to reimagine criminal justice and their version of doing that is to just ignore duly enactedie laws and let criminals get away with crimes. mesantis know that you can t mention george soros anymore. anymorethe guy who writes op, s admitting he is doin ug the very thing he was just accused of , jacob kornbluh from the forward, pownce tweeting to santurce, invoked jewish billionaire george soros, who s been the target of anti-semitic tropes. and illiberal comes drone name