borne out post-9/11 and during the run of barack obama. the difference is leadership. here we are now where the leadership doesn t give a crap. to frank s very important point, it is about the profit of politics. it is about how we grip the system to gain two very central thing, power and cash and to utilize both to sustain each other, to reinforce the money and the cash and so what s happening as i was listening to frank, it occurred to me back in 2015- 16 people were talking about deconstructing the state, and what does that mean? what does that mean? they ll break down these institutions. the underlying quest was not the administrative state, but it was to radicalize the political
25th amendment and disgrace. there s no other way to put it. this afternoon, he delivered the closing speech at this youth summit, the american first agenda summit. it s where people like kevin mccarthy, lindsey graham and ted cruz gathered and spoke. who wasn t there was just as notable. they write this, nearly the entire senate republican leadership, mitch mcconnell, nor john thume were on the agenda. the divide is stark. mcconnell wants nothing to do with trump, going out of his way never to utter the word trump in possible. trump has attacked mcconnell relentlessly. trump urged other republican senators to channel him for leader. that went exactly nowhere. mcconnell now faces a senate map where trump-backed candidates may cost the party dearly in november. karma is a you know what.
to me is not going to work, because i am not i m old enough to remember that what it meant to be a conservative was, you wanted to preserve the institutions of the country. you wanted to protect the constitution of the united states of america. you wanted to have a virtuous, as they talked about, a virtuous leadership, which believed in integrity and honesty and all of the old virtues that have existed for thousands of years in this. all of that is gone. it s no longer a republican party of conservatives. they continue to describe themselves that way. i think that s the problem for mike pence. i m going to make another argument. donald trump, whenever he goes and leaves this world or whenever isolates himself or finally decides that he is going to buy an island somewhere, whatever it happens to be, at this point to me, my view doesn t matter. it doesn t matter because the republican party is so contaminated with that and no longer is a conservative party,
it s important to remember that, chose. conscious decision. now, time will tell, politics will tell, and history will tell whether that was the right decision. i ve made the argument it was stupid from every point of view, the republicans point of view, the democrats point of view, history s point of view, they have no one but themselves to blame that they are not in the room, so the argument that this is a one-party hearing, a, it s not. b, it s not. i mean, they chose to take themselves out of the arena, which is their decision. i mean, what was pelosi supposed to do at that point? oh, well, if kevin mccarthy s not going to put his people on, we re going to fold our tents and go on. idiotic, stupid criticism, not sure where it s going and it doesn t really deserve any real debate at this point, and the leadership doesn t like when people say that, but it s just the reality. well, and i mean, jackie, liz is getting to the substantive
pregnancy, to have that child or, frankly, are in a health situation or dangerous situation where it will be better for them and for their lives and their futures. the only question anybody should ask is, do women count or not? because i say, we do. nobody gets to tell us that we don t. j.d. vance doesn t think they do. just to show our work, we have reached out to the nrsc, which gives money to j.d. vance s candidacy. the rnc, which i think is run by a woman. we haven t heard from them. we will keep calling every day until we have a response as to whether or not they agree with j.d. vance s position that violent marriages are ones women should stay in. thanks for doing that. i m skeptical you will hear anything. the sad truth is, j.d. vance is an extremist. but he reflects his party. we have to be clear about this.