trolls, republicans need to stop being so of noxious. and you write about the reasons republicans fared so poorly in the 2022 midterms be on the economy. abortion in the attacks on democracy. could there be more? all of these factors clearly played a role, but don t underweight the impact of formative obnoxious in this that now pervades republican messaging. conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs and republican campaigns, and then jobs with state and federal offices, then jobs in the conservative media. this pattern of behavior bids fair to repeat itself in 2024. as i write these words, at the beginning of 2023, the conservative world s most excited not by the prospect of big, legislative action from a republican house majority, and not by trump s declared candidacy for president in 2024, or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of presi
republicans at events across the country. trump supporters. and jordan jordan klepper joins us once again now, with more on that south carolina event, which wasn t a rally. by the way, everyone standing on stage looked a little grim jordan. jordan tallest about the event rally, not a, rally slash event. apparently some people thought it is going to be a rally. it was downgraded to an intimate event, which is dangerous territory. a trump intimate event is usually followed by no. you don t want that. manhattan prosecutors on the way. but when people arrived, it seemed to be more of a vip event. what we showed there wasn t necessarily vip caliber folks. some railroad trump was there, as well as a lot of folks who had a hard time wrapping around this being a reelection campaign stop. some people were holding on to the idea that trump still was president. so the whole pov was muddled from the get-go.