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Well, well, well. Has anything been happening lately? Yes, lots of things have been happening lately. But I wanted to talk to you about the party of hate. You may know that recently I gave a nickname to the Democratic Party. I called them the party of hate because it seemed that they didn't have ideas, but they had a lot of hate. And we've never seen this more clearly than with Kanye's tweeting and the reaction to it.

Now, have you noticed that there's a very clear pattern that has emerged? And it might have something to do with the party in power versus the party that's out of power. So I'm not going to say there's anything about the individuals that's broken. It may just be that the out-of-power party acts differently. But it's become very clear that the Republicans have become a party of ideas. Ideas include the Second Amendment, what to do about immigration, how to renegotiate deals, that sort of thing. All right, it's ideas.

The Democrats have become the party of "I hate that guy. You know that woman did something once. That person, I think they're thinking a bad thought. I believe in their mind they have terrible ideas. I think they're a bigot. I think they're discriminating. I think they're a racist. I think they're a misogynist." So the left has become the party of hating people, mostly on the right. The right has become a party of "let's have better ideas and maybe we can make things work." And oh my god, is it clear now. It's super clear at this point.

So watch. Often you see that. Now I wanted to talk about the illusions that cause the people on the left to hate the people on the right. And you're seeing on Twitter especially, I'm seeing people say to Kanye—essentially Kanye, I'm paraphrasing—"How could you possibly like Donald Trump because he must be a racist?" And the reason he must be a racist, a lot of them are using the same reasoning: he must be racist because all of the racists vote for him.

You know what's wrong with that thinking? Well, everything, right? I mean, there's no rational connection between the fact that a subset of a group vote for Trump. That doesn't mean he agrees with them. It means they find some benefit. Now obviously the main benefit that racists get in supporting Trump is that he's tough on immigration. They like it for racist reasons. Regular Republicans who are not racists like tight immigration because of crime and economics. Those are two different reasons to like the same president. It's not really hard to understand.

But here's what blows up their model. The people say that Trump must be racist because all of the racists seem to vote for him. What happens when the rappers start to vote for him? Does that make President Trump a rapper? I mean, the logic breaks down immediately. The very moment that you say the people who vote for him determine who he is, that logic doesn't work. Because what happens if all the—yeah, it's a bad analogy—but the point is the racists do like the president. That's just a fact. There's no reason to avoid that fact. But they like him for very clearly different reasons. They want fewer brown people in the country.

So I left a response to John Legend's tweets. So John Legend is one of the people who's speaking out about essentially Kanye. How can you embrace this horrible monster Trump? And I left the comment to his tweet—I don't know if he'll see it, there were a lot of comments—but I said that I've personally spent most of, you know, I'm not a Republican and not a conservative, but I've spent the last two and a half years essentially embedded with Republicans and conservatives. So probably at least 80% of all of my political conversation is with Trump supporters, because that's the way the world works, right? People like to talk with people who agree with them.

And after two and a half years, I have not one experience—and this is people, you know, because I'm talking social media as well as every other kind of way of communicating. So I'm talking about people from all over the cou