 Trump is back. I mean, we know Trump is back. We've seen Trump being back. He's announced his candidacy for 2024 but he's getting serious and and and I think he's gonna he's gonna try to take advantage of the momentum of Announcing first and really no other Republican can't know the Republicans have announced Certainly we've heard nothing from the Santas. I have a sense The dissenters is not gonna run I Fear that he is afraid of Trump and and we'll stay out of it. We'll see what happens one of those political predictions. I'll probably regret but Trump is now asking officially asking Facebook to be reinstated the rumors that he is going to be meeting with Zuckerberg in In order to in order to to convince Zuckerberg to let him onto the platform and maybe set some ground rules For his return to the platform that should be interesting He is about to relaunch his Twitter So he has been reinstated in Twitter, but as you as you probably know, he has not used Twitter He's been tweeting out of his truth network but obviously he's looking for a much larger platform and for much larger influence and For that he is He is going to reinstate his Twitter account and start being active on Twitter all this suggests You know real seriousness is on his seriousness on his part to engage in this campaign and to get going and to And to win I think I made a prediction early in January that Trump would win and I think so far it looks like he's the only candidate so we'll see but in terms of polling There were some polls last year that suggested the Santas might be able to beat Trump Well, the latest polls are all showing Trump basically trouncing the Santas the latest poll shows him leading by 17 points over the Santas and everybody else's and is You know barely a blimp on the screen Trump gets 48% of the support according to this poll the Santas 31 And then and then people like Pence, Cheney, Cruz, Nikki Haley get get nothing two three Mike Pence, maybe gets 8% although I doubt that's real I doubt Pence gets anything so Yeah, well after the races and it does seem like Trump, you know is is clearly the front runner and Is is aggressively? Aggressively pursuing this whether whether the Santas runs or not We will see I've I have no inside information. I have no Additional insight, but he certainly is quiet It was certainly not hearing much from the Santas. He's not commenting on the issues of the day He's not commenting on issues of Trump. So We'll see I think he's he's playing it close to vest in order to see how it all pans out Mike. Thank you for the support Roosevelt, thank you for the support really appreciate you guys One last thing about Trump, I mean what's what's really incredible about Trump and and what's really You know what really needs to be studied about Trump is is Just the unqualified support that he gets that the fact is You know remember when he said and I remember when he actually said this and I was shocked at the time He said he could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and wouldn't matter his support would not change The support for him would not change And it's true. I mean it doesn't matter what Trump does it doesn't matter what Trump says It doesn't matter how stupid it is it doesn't matter how obnoxious it is it doesn't matter how irrational it is It doesn't matter what he does. It doesn't matter what Congress does. It doesn't matter whether You know where there's taxes are released or whether he is in died his company his company Trump Is indicted for fraud and loses the case and is you know supposed to pay the government millions of dollars It doesn't matter that his chief financial officer is going to jail. It doesn't matter What the Commission the January 6th Commission reported it doesn't matter It nothing matters nothing matters All his lying deceiving All the revelations about how much of a real horrible person and and really horrible president he was None of that matters when iota to his committed supporters 50% of the republican party will vote it seems for donald trump no matter what Donald trump does including i think if you shoot somebody in the middle of fifth avenue Nothing will actually happen. So that is a political sociological psychological an amazing just phenomena and We should be all of us should be very scared of this phenomenon not that i think donald trump is going to become A dictator because i don't think he can win An election i think donald trump It will lose i think the great one of the great tragedies of Trump being the frontrunner is that he might win the nomination and As a consequence a democrat is going to be president starting in 2024 So that's one of the many bad things about donald trump winning But what it really suggests is a certain psychology of voters Of supporters are willing to support him no matter what and And that suggests a willingness and an openness to authoritarianism To a charismatic leader to the the the worship of a personality the worship of a person It's not about ideas anymore. It's about the person and that is a recipe for Ultimately that is a recipe for authoritarianism And while people are saying they voted the first time they may be voted a second time But they won't vote again for him If he is the nominee All of those people will vote for him But but i also think that you know, he was a nominee Last round and he lost and there's no question in my mind that he would lose That is that while he has 50 of the republicans committed to him A vast number of you know, of independence of vast even of Some republicans will not vote for him no matter what and either will not vote at all or would vote for a democrat And and that just makes it impossible. I think for trump actually to win a nationwide a national wide elections. So It's sad That the republicans don't grow up That the republicans don't wake up and they don't nominate somebody else because the reality is that i think There are a number of people in the republican party today Who would make great candidates and who actually would beat a democrat? I think that i think democrats as i said last time Super vulnerable Biden is not popular But to beat him You have to it has to be somebody other than trump And And we'll see if republicans are willing to do that and and and whether there is anybody. All right Thank you for listening or watching the iran brook show If you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. 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