Transcript: Matt Gaetz’s Meltdown Suddenly Gets Much Worse for Trump
Burleigh: Yeah. Who can say? The voters, they wanted a change. And I see that that’s what they’re getting here. There are a lot of the voters are just sitting there going, Yes, burn it down. They’re angry. They didn’t get any help from the Democrats for decades. The things that would have made a difference, national health care, minimum wage did not get carried out, carried through. The body politic was ripe for this, right? It’s been softened up and now they’re angry and they’re probably cheering this on. They’re cheering on and cheering on the mayhem and the chaos that he’s bringing there with the idea that if the government just evaporates or collapses, that everybody will have a better life. I don’t know how that’s going to happen.
But it also is, Greg, as you know, you’ve been around long enough, the anti-government rhetoric that goes all the way back to Reagan, at least in my lifetime, maybe before, but the growing, the seething rage at government and at the federal government especially has been seeded for decades. And so now you’re seeing the flourishing of what was planted by gingers and everybody else between from Reagan on.
Sargent: Yeah, I think that’s right. You got to wonder though, there’s a certain type of undecided and swing voter, at least undecided up to Election Day. Swing voters, maybe Latinos who just associate Trump with a good economy wrongly. But there it is. A lot of these voters, maybe they just see Trump as a disrupting figure, an anti-status quo figure. You can see from their perspective why they think that. In 2020, when Trump was in office, he got voted out because he was in office. And somehow, maybe partly because the law is rightly after Trump, he reconfigured himself yet again as an outsider despite being president one time and as a disruptor of the status quo, which obviously everybody dislikes. That sort of superficial understanding of what Trump represents is now looking like it’s going to be really disastrous. Don’t you think?
