in his presidency has he really remembered that. he at every point in his presidency has been the base of this angry the president of his base of this angry minority that either is content to avert their gaze and enable this kind of violence and hatred or actively participates in it. and he s only happy to because the more he incites them and excites them as mayor bloomberg said, the more they re loyal to him. and, again, i think it s crazy, like rick was saying or i m sorry that adam was saying that his base lives in a strategic geography that allow him to defy gravity. they love this stuff, and that says something really horrible and disheartening about our country frankly that nearly half the country thinks this is great and this is just fine. yeah. rick, i saw you shaking your head when she mentioned the whole what whataboutism of you know, this person said this and hillary clinton said that
his administration say. it matters when their words divide us rather than bring us together. it matters because if you hate one group of americans, you hate us all. if you hate one, you hate all. this is a time now for leadership. but the truth is this president will never be a leader on this. never. never. stop looking to him for it. ain t going to happen. words matter. words like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. that is america too. in the midst of such a dark time, we must never forget that is the real america. a lot to talk about with rick wilson, tu yayafy, and adam sorer, next.
there s no way people would continue supporting trump after this. and yet they do. i mean his approval ratings nationally aren t great, but among republicans, they re sky high after all of this, after his attacks on the media as enemies of the people, saying there were very fine people among the neo-nazi and neoconfederates marching in charlottesville. yeah. i think that also matters. and as we ve seen in some of the darkest chapters in history, that matters as much as the perpetrators. it s the people who turn their gaze, who avert their eyes, and who think, you know, well, at least we re getting our tax cuts. yeah, you hit the nail on the head. if not if they don t support it, you said the silent majority they enable it. because they ve overlooked it. they say, it s all right. adam, you wrote about how the synagogue gunman took the president s caravan hysteria seriously.
and, you know, that s you know, the killer did not like trump. he didn t think trump was trumpy enough. but he is echoing trump s rhetoric on the caravan. hold on, adam, because i want to it s a good point that you bring up, and i want to drill down on that and then let you finish. you said, it s not trumpy enough, but i want people to get it. he didn t think that trump was more radical and stricter on immigration. he wanted him to be, you know, even stricter on immigration. he wanted him to be more- and not just immigration. on jews. on jews. on jews. and if he had been, then he would have liked him. i mean he probably would have liked him more. it s almost beside the point because what was motivating him according to his own words was this belief about this caravan, which, you know, quite frankly is complete hysteria. these people are going to come here. they re either going to have an asylum claim or they re not. if their claim is legitimate,
trump is there. as julia said, this is like a teenager who listens to his presidents giving him a lecture and then goes to his friends and says ha, ha, ha and runs and does the same thing over again. you re going to see tomorrow a moment he should be dignified. there should be mourning. there should be seriousness. i guarantee you he won t last six hours before he tweets some asinine thing again. or goes to a rally. can i just add something to what rick said? you know, up until last week, i would have said, yeah, he continues and has been playing footsie with the alt-right. last week he gave them a really hardy french kiss frankly, when he said, i know i m not supposed to say this. it s an old-fashioned world, but i m a nationalist. and they heard it exactly as he meant it. you saw all the alt-right forums saying, he means race. we re so excited. one of them wrote, the fire is rising. adam, it s controversial. some people there want him.