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exican population in Mexico City is protesting and throwing rocks through store windows and stuff? If you haven't followed that story, what would be your first guess about why the local Mexican population is so mad? First guess would be they don't like the cartels, right? Which it's not that. It's not that. Second guess would be something about economics. Well, it is, but the specific complaint is…
← Previous segment →bit more. Now, there's one narrative that says this is terrible for Republicans. All it will do is siphon off votes from Republicans. But I think you're being an analogy thinker if you think that. How many of you said to yourself, oh no, Ross Perot sunk the Republicans by taking away some of their votes when he ran as a third party. So if Elon Musk launches a third party, it's going to be the same problem. You know, just like Ross Perot, it's just going to make the Republicans weaker and then the Democrats will take everything.
But there's one problem with that analogy. And by the way, I mock people who use analogies to predict what's going to happen. Because being an analogy thinker is nothing to be proud of. It just means you were reminded of something else. It doesn't mean that the thing you're talking about is going to follow the same path. You're just reminded of it. That's all.
Here's the big difference, I think. But here's the part I'd have to wait and find out how real this
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is. So far, Musk has only talked about getting senators and House of Representatives, a small group, you know, maybe just a handful of each, and having that be enough to be able to influence events. So he's not trying to flip the House or turn it into mostly an America Party thing. He's just trying to get a smallish group of like-minded people who are just more America first than they are wed to a…
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