that everything that you knew about the Republicans was wrong, and that as long as you follow the rules that they follow, they love you. They love you. You just have to follow the same rules. That's it. It's easy.

But the progressives are over there trying to decide, huh, should we be progressives? Should we be more DEI and really identity politics? Or should we be more like Bernie? Or what? Those are all, they're not even the right questions. If they're talking about personnel, Republicans are talking about process. One is system. One is goal. The system is going to beat the goal every time. So if the Democrats don't figure out how to create a system, which they don't have, they can't beat the system.

So here's what I mean. Democrats have a goal of having power and everybody gets this equity stuff. Yeah, everybody does. Well that's a goal. It's a pretty good goal, right? Of course they want power. They think they're the good guys. They want everybody to do well. Good goals. Then you look at the Republicans. They have systems. Hey, we've got to make sure we're following this Constitution, and that's why we've got to make sure that the Supreme Court is filled with what we call the originalists, the people who are going to follow the Constitution the way it was written, not make up stuff. That's the system. That system, among other things, caused the abortion question to be sent to the states. How'd that work out? Well, it worked out really well for Republicans because it kind of took it off the table for the federal election, which was a better system. And at the same time, the local people in the states have majority female voters in almost every state, so they can kind of get what they want over time. That's a system.

The goal was for them to get all the abortion rights they wanted right away. They will get all the abortion rights they want in each state eventually. The system will work through it and they'll get exactly what they want. But the system of just making sure you're picking meritocracy, you're following the law, you're following the Constitution, and that you're actually doing a primary, that's another system. Mistake, right? So the Republicans said we're going to have a competitive primary, and they did. The Democrats said we'll just push this dying guy through. No, we'll replace him. No. You know, there's no system.

So the system people are going to just absolutely dominate the goal people, I think forever. I mean unless one of them changes completely. This is a permanent dominant situation. And the fun part is that the Democrats can't figure it out because they're locked in an identity world. You know, they're locked in their own form of the Matrix. In their Matrix there's identity and that matters, and then there's bad Republicans. If that's how they frame the world, they can't ever get a solution. So I would expect it to be kind of a bad time to be a Democrat for a few years.

Former Obama speechwriter David Rothkopf, according to the Washington Examiner, says that the celebrity endorsements are good for Democrats. But is careful to say, and here's where I respect this opinion because at first I thought that's dumb, but then when I read the nuance, the nuance is that nobody really changes their opinion because of the celebrities, but you might get people more interested in showing up to vote if it improves your enthusiasm. Okay, maybe. But nobody changed their vote because Beyonce. So I agree with the Democrat speechwriter. Okay, yeah, the celebrities are not changing votes, but maybe they give you some energy.

However, I would note that both sides use celebrities, right? So they both used every celebrity they could get. Trump did it too. But what was different about the way Trump did it? Trump used celebrities too, but what was different? Here's what I think was different. Trump's celebrities were often people that look like Democrats. So when you see Joe Rogan, who's got a long history of progressive Democrat-looking opinions, say you know what, I'm going Trump. You've got professional athletes, especially