him urging him to run again what do you think happened well let's take fox in the republican party slightly separately here we know what happened with fox they did sort of break with trump right they called arizona for biden they were very they began sort of pushing back on the big lie afterwards very pretty aggressively and they lost their viewers the ratings went down and so what did they do they swerved completely in the other direction and got more pro-trump they cut back on news and put in place more pro-trump opinion they purged the people who called the election for biden that the political staff they fired them as some sort of sacrifice on a maga altar for trump they you know and it's like we know that rupert murdoch and his kids are right-wing ideologues we know they want to elect republican politicians because they that's what they believe in and they know what's good for them financially they're also greedy and so if rating this is where the money is right tucker carlson wants to make tens of millions of dollars a year he has to get five million people to watch the show how does he get five million people to watch a show by being a performative preppy white supremacist conspiracy theorist like that's where the market is republican party same thing right where mcconnell with the great courage of anonymity suggests through jonathan martin that he would like to uh of the new york times ask trump to resign same thing with mccarthy gets like a couple of mean emails from some republican supporters and next thing you know rick scott of the national republican senatorial committee that mitch mcconnell controls is giving trump a fake trophy and what they will all say is this is where the base is this is what the base wants well this is what the base wants is because you don't ever give them anything else no one has the courage to actually stand up and say this is wrong for more than five seconds at a time and if and if people actually stood up not just liz cheaney but if mcconnell and mccarthy had stood up and fought back if other republicans had fought back you might have a different situation but they all popped their head up took a shot and then went right back in well partly because who has who has more sway with the republican base mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy or sean hannity and tucker carlson and laura ingram and and ben shapiro and whatever dan bongino and all these steve bannon like that's that's who has the power over the base and so like you know kevin mccarthy mitch mcconnell are in a match for those people they can't do it um that's in the b look and also you know to be a republican right now it's not a question of ideology anymore it's a question of identity and when the identity is tied up with donald trump and what donald trump says the election was rigged and i have been wronged and so have you that becomes
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