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It's just somebody hired. But if he was, if the person was trying to send a signal and it was an activist and let's say let's just go down this hypothesis. Let's say it was somebody who really really wanted the world to pay attention. It's somebody who didn't just want to kill one guy but wanted the whole world to pay attention and wanted to make a statement. Does it make sense that that person w…

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iction part is the closest you can get to knowing what's real. I'm not sure any of us are accurately interpreting reality. I mean we all seem to be living in our own realities but some of them predict and I tell you this all the time if you can predict then probably you're closer to reality or at least you have something that you could work with better for your own survival.

So that was my prediction and it's a one-off so it's not like a scientific study. But see how many times you can predict that DEI or the source of funding would be the problem behind some larger issue that you don't understand.

Meanwhile Jen Psaki according to the Daily Caller News Foundation is saying that the Democrats focusing on identity politics has damaged the party's brand. He is correct. That has damaged the party's brand so much so that I think it's unrecoverable. Because once you make everybody focus on their identity you necessarily in the long term you're going to lose the ability to have them function as one coherent group because you've persuaded them to not think that way.

So in theory they should eat each other forever whereas the Republicans are going for the opposite theory which is how about we just say are you an American who likes to follow the law? Yes. Oh you're perfect. We're done here. There's nothing else we need to discuss. You're an American. I'm an American. You like the law. I like the same law. We're good.

So the Republicans have built a process, a system which can get stronger indefinitely. The Democrats built a system which even on paper

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should have destroyed itself in a few years and that's what we observe. It was very predictable. And furthermore I predict that they can't recover at a national level. They'll still win all their local races. Just identity politics is all you need. But at the federal level don't see them becoming competitive for a long time unless the Republicans ran a complete loser and somehow the Democrats got…

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