 with Nick, hi Nick, how are you? How you doing? All right, yeah, I would add some thoughts about your diatribe yesterday about Trump and all that. No, I wanted to state that, don't you think the Trump brand is very toxic right now? The PGA canceled a big event on one of his courses. A lot of his hotels, they wanna take the Trump banner off. I mean, they're paying them to take it off. I mean, how is he gonna, how in the world, let's put aside all the cultists, the Trump cultists. How in the world is he gonna capture the center? He has absolutely zero chance, zero chance. So I agree with that. I think the challenge of the Republican party is that he splits the vote. That is there was a significant number. Maybe it's only, maybe it's 20%, right? Maybe it's 40% of Republicans, maybe it's 20% of Republicans taught to tell, but it's somewhere in the 20 to 40% range of Republicans. And some people would argue, maybe it's 70% of the Republican voters who adore him, right? I put aside the cult aspect, they adore him. They think he is the future. They think his ideas are the ideas of the future. So he splinters the Republican party. He is going to put up people against mainstream, I guess, house members, against senators. That has the risk of him, his people winning because they bring enough of the primary voters out. And if they win, then they lose to the Democrats and they lose even more seats in the house. So maybe lose more seats in the Senate. That's the danger he poses. I don't think he can win. I don't think he can win a national election. I don't think his people can win, but I think he does a huge amount of damage to the party itself and to its ability to reform as a real opposition party to the Democrats. Yeah, but that has to happen. The Republican party has to crash and burn and then rise like a phoenix and reinvent itself. That has to happen. That process has to happen. There's no shortcut to that. I agree completely. So all I'm putting out is that's what's happening. And my hope is that it happens faster and what scares me, what I think is very disturbing, is the fact that so many Republican elected officials are rallying to Trump side, even though clearly he's a loser, that even though he's gonna destroy the party, they're still rallying to his side. And in that sense, they're prolonging the period of decline of crashing and burning and it's gonna take them longer to rise up, whether as a phoenix or something else, but it's gonna take them longer to rise up. So that's what scares me right now is that he's doing real lasting damage that will take the Republican party longer to rise up from. The other side of this is, the alternative is, which is another negative, is that the worst elements in the Republican party, that Josh Hawley's of the Republican party will replace Trump and try to bring kind of the party together and appeal to some people in the center by with the handouts that Josh Hawley wants to do. I mean, some of those are in the middle class and that somehow Josh Hawley molds the Republican party in his image, which would be even a bigger disaster than I think Trump would be. So I think we're in for a very, very dicey period for the Republican party, whether it crashes or burns, how long it stays like that, how long it takes it to rise up and what form it takes when it rises. Does it take the form of a semblance of pro-free markets and pro-individual rights? Or does it take a form of conservative nationalism but now with a real charismatic leader with principles, just really, really bad ones, versus Trump, who I don't think was that charismatic in the end but who mostly was no principles, no ideas. So what is the future of the Republican party? That's what's intriguing at this point and Trump makes it difficult. But Josh Hawley, I mean, his role in the insurrection on January the sixth really put him in a corner. I would agree with you before that, that he's charismatic and all that and he still is, but he just put himself really in a corner and that was the good thing about January the sixth. The best thing about January the sixth, I agree completely. I celebrated January the sixth from the perspective of it made Josh Hawley look bad. The question now is, is there somebody else of Josh Hawley's ideology? Because there are a lot of think tanks now on the right set up to support those ideas. Is there some rising star? And I don't know, but that's something to watch. But that wing of the Republican party, that's the scary wing that kind of leftist economically, nationalist, culturally, that's the wing that is most that we should be watching and worried about. But I hope that the better people win. I hope that, I think the better people are people like Nikki Haley and Ben Sasse. Although granted, Ben Sasse is quite religious, but I think of the religious conservatives, he's the smartest and more thoughtful and more connected to the founding fathers than any of the others that I know of. And he had the balls to vote for impeachment. So I give him a lot of credit for that, even though he's super conservative in the traditional conservative sense. So we'll see, it's gonna be interesting to watch the next four years. And I really hope that Trump just collapses. That is that the whole Trump thing collapses and into a heap of nothing. It will eventually, it'll run out of gas. I agree, because it's not. It's not ideologically driven, like you said. Exactly, exactly. And that can't win. So it's what replaces it and that's important. Thanks, Nick. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, broods. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least a hundred. I figure at least a hundred of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I want to see a thumbs up, there you go. 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