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I mean, think about it this way. we've had three one-term presidents in the last several decades who lost their bids for re-election after being elected by the general public. since 1980. you've got jimmy carter, george h.w. bush, and donald trump. jimmy carpeter and george h.w. bush were not wielding outsize influence in their respective marties after being rejected by voters. far from it, carter returned to his hometown in georgia focused on human rights and diplomacy. bush also moved back home to houston and lived a mostly private life. in fact, being a loser tends to be detrimental to your...

How many individualso are settig out there that want to have a communication or talk about a conservatives object getat bannd or their views are never being seen? but individuals can talk like this and they never got suspended?ei this is what is wrong. >> laura: the problem congressman, when young people do basic searches for information, they do basic searches for "capitalism," t "tx cuts," it is interesting to see what comes up on those searches. invariably, the most left wing progressive, even socialist views, which are couched in the most beautiful terms, come up first.oc that is a problem...

Demonstrated and manifesting itself in local elections. but the president lately has been calling out billionaires with an outsize influence on politics. take a listen. >> there aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way. where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bank rolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed and what it means is ordinary americans are shut out of the process. >> ordinary americans are shut out of the process, the president says. how can this big money be countered? >> well, that's the million-doll...

Have to rely on states to be aggressive about requiring groups to disclose their political donors, dr. peterson? >> well, i do believe that we have to -- until we're going to sort of repeal the supreme court decision or as krystal suggests get some constitutional amendments to make a more robust model for campaign measuring of finances, i think we have to meet them both where they are as movements, with citizens engaged in political processes coming out to vote. and yes at the state level. remember, democrats don't control a whole lot of states. but people have got to press their legislators a...

Affiliates and organizations that they fund. you know, what's going on in iowa is particularly sort of important for us to focus in on. because it may look like small town politics, but actually the ideology behind their involvement is they want to essentially pit big business versus government. they're much more interested in evading taxes for business and privatizing different public entities than they are actually allowing elections to unfold in the ways that local elections should unfold. they take that at every level. at the very local level of cities and municipalities, they want to do i...