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about not growing at the rate that they need to, and we're worried about growing too fast. Who wins the trade war? Okay, now the fact that it took President Trump to pretty much force this through the government tells you a lot about the low quality of our government before this. Because now that it's happening, doesn't it feel obvious that it was the right thing to do? You know, before the trade…
← Previous segment →ver seen a better month for any president? I know I'm not a presidential historian, but has there ever been a 30-day period when a sitting president just had everything go his way? And it was sort of going to happen by chance sooner or later. You know, he was gonna have the best month ever, which I'm gonna drink to. Let us drink to the best 30 days any president ever had. Join me.
Yeah, so here are some of the things that are going right now. Oh, the obvious stuff for the economy and North Korea and stuff like that, we talked about that all the time. But in the past month here are some other things that have gone right. One is these rallies. So when the president is in travel rally mode, he is the best. The best president of all time, you know, mostly for his base, right? Because the other people are not watching or they don't like what he's saying. But in terms of his base, he's the best president of all time. They love these rallies. They charge up the base. He just takes it to a whole other level.
Do you remember when the president was first running for office and people said dismissively, oh he's just a crazy clown and he's an entertainer and he's just a reality TV show star? And do you remember what I said? What I said was I think you're missing something. He does have all of the theater skills. I call it theater. He has a grasp and an understanding of theater. It's on top of his other skills. It's not his only skill. It's one of his skills. If it were his only skill, you know, I wouldn't even be talking about him. Lots of people could do that one thing. The magic here is the other stuff on top of that. The theater part is just what he does in addition to the other things. In addition to having the business sense, the negotiating, the understanding of government, the understanding of people, the charisma, the sense of humor, there's just this enormous talent stack that works really well together that he built over a lifetime.
So when you look at him using the theater layer of his considerable talent stack, we now see it differently. Now you see it as an extra level that no president has ever matched. You know, he's unmatched in terms of the theater talents part of his talent stack. So that part's going well. So he's got the great visuals, he's got the enormous crowds. The news can't ignore it entirely because he always says something a little provocative that makes them have to focus on it. So he's killing it that way. So it's good for him.
Second, you're seeing the Blue Wave, or at least the optimism for it, starting to atrophy quickly. You know, we went from oh my god this is going to be good for Democrats to well this probably will be good for Democrats to well we're very confident statistically that Democrats will still probably win but maybe not. And I believe the odds of a blue wave are now, at least by some people's reckoning, almos
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t identical to the odds of Hillary Clinton winning on Election Day. Now if that's not perfect, if that is not a perfect setup for surprise version 2.0, let's call it, it needs a name, should it come to pass that the Republicans outperform. And I'm not predicting that. I'm only predicting that the turnout for Republicans will be jaw-dropping. That's my prediction. The turnout for Republicans will b…
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