s you say to yourself, okay, here comes the crazy stuff. And then he talks and you go, why doesn't that sound crazy anymore? I was pretty sure he was crazy a few years ago. Did he become less crazy? Now I'm still not saying he knows how to pay for any of his plans. That part didn't change.

But they asked him about impeachment, and unlike many of the Democrats who were jumping on that impeachment bandwagon, Bernie says, no, I'm more concerned about the issues. Let's not get distracted. And by the way, if we do get distracted by that, it probably is going to be good for Trump and you end up getting more of Trump, not less. So the strategy won't work.

And I listened to that and I thought to myself, okay, every part of that made sense. What's going on here? Why am I agreeing with Bernie so aggressively? Strategy-wise I think he found the exact right lane. He found the nuance. And so it's interesting to watch Bernie become the voice of reason. That's how much our mental model has moved, that he just stands out as a beacon of reason on the left. Which is probably bad news for the left, because if your most reasonable person has gigantic plans that can't possibly be practical in terms of how you pay for them under the current way he suggests them, that's a problem for the Dems.

One of the dumbest things I hear on social media — now it's mostly on social media I suppose, here in the month of news a little bit from the pundits, but these are the dumbest things that I hear on social media. What is Trump doing? I guess this is on the news as well. The critics of the president say, what is Trump doing to stop Russian interference in the next election? That might be the dumbest political comment in the world.

Because what exactly is he supposed to do? Hey, what exactly are you supposed to do? Wouldn't you assume that the people working on cybersecurity are doing everything they can to make sure it's hard to hack us, hard to get into the voting machines? Don't you believe that all of the states have now been alerted to the dangers and are doing everything that they can individually to make sure that they have secure voting processes? Aren't all of the social media platforms who were part of Russia's interference last time, are they not all completely aware and working with this administration to know what the risks are and figure out how to deal with it?

Of course. Of course they are. That's obvious. You don't have to get a report on it. Of course they are. Why wouldn't they? Everything suggests that that's happening. Now what exactly could you do beyond protecting yourself, which I assume is done? What is it that people here — let me get rid of this troll. Goodbye, troll.

Why is it that people imagine he should be doing that? We could also observe and we would know he is doing it, which is a big thing, right? Because if we sanctioned them, we'd be sanctioning them for what they already did. The question is what are we doing to stop them from doing it again? So how do you stop them from doing it again in the context when they're gonna do it again? There isn't really any question that they're gonna try to do it again, is there? They might just try to be a little more clever about it.

But it seems to me that all the big countries interfere with each other or whatever. It makes sense. And so here are the things I would add to this. If our CIA is making sure that Russia is paying a price for what they've already done, would you and I know about it? Would you and I know that the CIA just stuck a pole so far up Putin's ass that it's sticking out the top of his head? Do we know that? We shouldn't know that.

And shouldn't we expect that our CIA, our cyber people, are putting the screws on Russia? Don't you think that we have crawled into their systems so extensively that we can make the lights blink when we want to? Now how would the public know about any of that? Because that's where all the action should be happening, right? It should be happening under the hood. Everything that the president should do or could do, I'd say 75% of it should be out of our view. And the president should not be bragging about it.

So if you're out in public and saying our president is not doing anything