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e getting wrong. They really really should have talked to, well first of all they should have talked to Americans you know regular people, but secondly they should talk to a hypnotist not one of the pundits who got everything wrong. If you talk to a hypnotist I'm pretty sure we can sort things out. Maybe not every hypnotist but I'm pretty sure I could. I'll tell them exactly what they got wrong. T…

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nt that people thought oh in retrospect he was just drumming up publicity. And then this third time I think it was the third time he runs and what did everybody say? They said oh he's not serious he's just drumming up publicity he's just a clown trying to get some attention maybe.

Here's what I think happened. I think in all three cases Trump did not expect to be a serious player. I think in all cases he said I'm going to walk up to the door but I'm not going to walk through it because walking up to the door gets me all the attention I need and it's good for business good for my brand so I'll get all the good stuff but I don't need to go through the door and actually be elected. I just need to walk right up to it. And here's what I feel like happened. He walked right up to the door not really expecting he needed to go through it or would go through it and all of a sudden about 10 million Republican arms reached down from the door grabbed him by the lapel and just yanked him inside and said no you're doing this. You're our only hope. Obi-Wan Kenobi you are our only hope. Everything is going to, you're probably the only person that has the balls to fix this thing. We've been watching you. You're smart enough. You're brave enough. You know how to do this. Please please be our president. That's what I think happened.

And if you look at the individual contributions of Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich, me, Jack Posobiec, you know you can list 50 more, but I believe that we, and I'm speaking for a larger body of Republican-oriented people, I think we just decided he's our guy. Nobody told us to do that. In fact everybody in charge told us not to do it. And what did we all say? If you're in charge why is everything fucked up right? So the first thing that the base said to the Republicans is you guys are not cutting it. You are not doing what we need you to do and it doesn't look like you're going to fix it. So we're going to bring in a draft pick and it's going to be our pick. It's not your pick. They very much did not want that to be their pick.

So again Democrats are a top-down brainwashing organization. Republicans are a bottom-up meritocracy. Because it didn't matter if all the people I mentioned wanted Trump but we weren't good at making it happen. Both of those had to be true. We had to want him and we had to collectively cumulatively we had to have the skill to make it happen. That's the part nobody saw coming. Nobody saw coming the amount of natural skill that just sort of appeared around 2015 like people that weren't in politics before myself and a number of others who suddenly just seemed to have some skill that you weren't expecting and they

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brought it to the process and it made a difference. And then I would argue that in 2024 that that level of that skill it just went through the roof. I mean by then you had Vivek and you had JD Vance and you had Elon Musk and everybody started getting on board but still it was bottom up. We dragged him through the door and I don't think he was expecting to be here but he took the moment. He's real…

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