I said Republicans when I said that? No let me say it again clearly. Democrats. I'll give you the numbers. In early 2021 this is CNN's reporting remember this is important this is CNN. All right in early 2021 90 percent of Democrats said they were at least somewhat confident that elections reflected the will of the people. What? In one year they went from 90 percent Democrats saying that the elections were valid. What do you think that is now for Democrats? Did you think I misspoke and said when I meant Republicans? No I'm only talking Democrats. Only Democrats went from 90 percent thinking they trusted the election to currently 57 percent. 57 percent Democrats in one year. Democrats went from 90 trusting their own election to 57 percent. And they won. They won the election. Did I mention that they won? And they went from 90. I don't even know what to say about this.

What do you think? I have a hypothesis and it goes like this. The January 6 hearings are making Democrats trust elections less. I'll tell you why. It's a hypnosis theory and they have not thought this through. They did not think it through. Let me give you an example. You've heard this example before. Don't think of an elephant right now. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't think of an elephant. Do not think of a giant pachyderm with big ears and a trunk. That's my elephant impression. Don't do it. How did you do? Did you succeed in not thinking about that elephant?

Okay so the first rule of hypnosis is you can't not think about things. If it's in your face you're thinking about it. You can't unthink things. So that's the first rule. Thinking's automatic. Second rule is your opinion of what matters is what you hear about the most. Not because it matters the most. What you think matters the most is just what you hear about. I keep hearing about that. That must matter. Doesn't matter what. Did the January 6 hearings do? Well the logical point of them was to make a logical case that Republicans are bad people. You know that's the, there was a political show trial. Still is. But that's a concept. Do people remember concepts? Yeah I mean if you give them a test on it later they might get the right answer but they really remember how you make them feel.

And so this is what the January 6 event has done. Those elections were not rigged. The elections were not rigged. The elections were not stolen. All of those many many many claims of evidence of elections are not real. Those two thousand mules didn't go to those drop boxes. All you hear, all you hear is that the elections are sketchy. No matter how many times they tell you that the Republicans are wrong or lying about the elections what you hear is why are we talking about elections being sketchy? Or what we're still talking about elections being sketchy, right? I just woke up today and it's a new day and Democrats are still talking about elections being sketchy. Now the concept is they're blaming other people but it feels like all they're talking about is elections being unreliable.

Now here's the payoff. What happened to Republican opinion about the reliability of the 2020 election or elections in general? I think it's elections in general. Republican confidence in the elections went up in the same period. Republican confidence in the elections went up in the same period. It went from low, right? It was 23 percent were confident after the Trump experience in 2020 but it's up to 29. So Republicans have watched the same news and by a smaller margin but they've come to be convinced okay maybe we're in better shape than I thought, right? Because the news showed the Republicans that no courts had found anything and time goes by and you know all these crazy Kraken claims didn't come through. Some number of Republicans just said well you know I had my questions but maybe I'll release on that for now.

So am I wrong that that's the best hypothesis for what's happening? Because I don't know what else would be happening. If CNN is non-stop and MSNBC non-stop telling their base that the elections are fine how do you explain it? How do you explain that gigantic drop in confidence of the Democrats when their own side just keeps telling them everything is fine? It's got to be the hypnotist thing, right? It's got to be just that the topic itself is poison because you can't talk about election fraud all day long and then not and then have people think there is none. So the entire thing is about look at all this smoke. Oh look at all this smoke. There's no fire there. Oh look at this other smoke. Well it's very smoky. It's very smoky. But every time we look for the source of the smoke it's not there. But did I tell you how smoky it is? Well there's another another smoke. Oh there's some more smoke. But so f