00:00I read the piece you wrote in the Atlantic where you criticised him for taking advantage
00:03of the struggling working class.
00:05What Trump offers, this is your quote, is an easy escape from pain to every complex problem
00:09he promises a simple solution.
00:11He can bring jobs back simply by punishing offshore companies into submission.
00:14As he told a New Hampshire crowd, folks are too similar with the opioid Scrooge.
00:18He can cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the cartels out.
00:23He will spare the United States from humiliation and military defeat with indiscriminate bombing.
00:28It doesn't matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan.
00:31He never offers detail for those plans to work because Trump's Trump is cultural heroine.
00:37He makes some people feel better, but he cannot fix all the ails, all that ails them.
00:42And one day they'll realize it.
00:44Very tough words against Trump long time ago, 2016 and 10 years ago.
00:50What changed?
00:51Well, let me, let me pick up.
00:53First of all, I think you always have to be able to acknowledge when you're right and when
00:58you're wrong.
01:00And there was a lot I was right about in 2016, but, but just pick up on something.
01:05Can you read the line for me again, where I talk about no, is it no credible military
01:09leader has endorsed these plans?
01:11Yeah, it says, um, it doesn't matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan.
01:16Okay.
01:17So what I would say is I wrote that I believed that when I wrote it and reading it now,
01:24I'm
01:24almost embarrassed that I wrote it because it was so obviously absurd.
01:27In fact, the fact that Donald Trump was misaligned with the military experts in the military leadership
01:34of 2016 was a good thing, not a bad thing.
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