Take a stand against 76 of what americans think is right. Several republicans and democrats including my first guest tonight, california senator harris spent the weekend making statements and tweeting strong opposition to President Trump ending daca. But in trumps mind, there was the looming headline that appears in breitbart today if the president did nothing about daca, and then, of course, there was the president himself. The candidate who campaigned on ending daca had only this to say when last asked about it on friday. Should d. R. E. A. M. Ers be worried . We love the dreamers. The president would delay a final big decision on daca for six months, an immigration hard
liner told the New York Times hes being pulled in a bunch of Different Directions and because he doesnt have any strong anchor or deep knowledge of the issue, he ends up sort of not knowing what to do. I think the fact that they did nothing to it suggests that they had no idea what to do. That was an assumption that
got the nomination and became president. i wasn t reverse engineering it, i had this big theory and donald trump came along and embodied it. and your book would be valid, even if donald trump had come in second for the presidency, if the electoral college had just tilted the other way. it s astonishing enough that he would get the nomination of a major party. you write, america was created by people resistant to reality checks and convinced they had special access to the truth, a place founded to enact grand fantasies. and the trump presidency now stands as one of the grandest fantasies of all. right. of course, we had a few hundred years where that fantastical impulse was kept in check by say the jeffersons and franklins of the world, and the elites and the establishment over hundreds of years, until it kind of got out of control in the last few
here i thought the explanation was, at most, a multidecade explanation. you ve done us a 500-year ramp into trumpism. and weirdly, to me, i started researching this book in 2013, started writing in 2014. turned in before donald trump was nominated. so i mean, i m the one person who lucked out in this country when donald trump came along and got the nomination and became president. i wasn t reverse engineering it, i had this big theory and donald trump came along and embodied it. and your book would be valid, even if donald trump had come in second for the presidency, if the electoral college had just tilted the other way. it s astonishing enough that he would get the nomination of a major party. you write, america was created by people resistant to reality checks and convinced they had special access to the truth, a place founded to enact grand fantasies. and the trump presidency now stands as one of the grandest fantasies of all.