Actor, comedian, writer, activist and all-around douchebag Brandon Miller joins Jemele to discuss his new book, "Out of the Box" and his new role as a writer for the New York Times and the Daily Mail.
00:02:14.960And my argument was that I thought that it was no longer possible for a lot of good people on the left to pretend that the extremes of the left were not going off the rails.
00:03:21.040So for me, it's really been a realization because there have been so many things over the last decade that I've just shut my mouth about and I've gone along with.
00:03:33.280And it's really at a point now where it's gut check time.
00:03:41.900Or are you on team burn everything down?
00:03:44.340And it's been really disillusioning to see just how few people on my own side have principles.
00:03:51.240I always thought that what we were doing was about making the world better.
00:03:56.020And it's been very eye-opening to see it's actually about personal power.
00:04:01.180I'm going to ask you a question that will sort of sound a little bit like an I told you so or anything, but it's not intended in that way.
00:04:07.440I guess a lot of people who are in our position, Francis and I both always thought of ourselves as liberal and on the left and we worked in a very progressive comedy industry in the UK.
00:04:18.880And what happened with us is we said what you were saying now six years ago.
00:04:36.340So I guess I'm curious what you think is going to happen, first of all, with you now, because it's sort of the way it has happened today is anyone who was willing to challenge that fringe that you're talking about, which is anti-Western, it's anti-male, it's anti-white, it's anti-Jewish, etc., would say what you're saying, what we've been saying for years, and they would immediately become evil, right-wing, Nazi, far-right, etc.
00:05:25.980There's no universe where, like, progressives win power and manage to get a ton of Congress, you know, congressional seats and pass the legislation that I believe in.
00:05:36.780It is devolved into exactly as you say, a bunch of culture war nonsense that is not about policy and now literally siding with terrorists.
00:05:46.700So, you know, what, I've had so many conversations with friends about this because every single progressive activist that I know is really frustrated with this destructive tendency that we have.
00:06:00.140And all of us are going, what can we do?
00:06:03.200We, you know, your industry has audience capture where you kind of get into a lane and you can't challenge your own audience because your numbers will drop.
00:06:11.060I think in the progressive space, there's very much the same thing where there's this tendency to go left-er and left-er and left-er and left-er.
00:06:20.440And now we're at a point where we can't even say things like trans women don't have periods without people getting really upset about that.
00:06:28.200Look at my mentions literally right now.
00:06:30.600So someone's got to stand up and go, this is not right.
00:06:36.580I didn't get into progressive politics to talk about trans women having periods.
00:06:40.700I got into progressive politics to pass fucking health care.
00:06:44.760So we're either serious about course correcting on this cultural dead end or Donald Trump and MAGA are going to win everything.
00:06:54.620And the pain for the Democratic Party is going to be extreme.
00:06:58.180We've got to start talking more to people in the middle.
00:07:01.220And we need to be reaching out to sane Republicans, in my view.
00:07:04.880Brianna, don't you think part of the problem is when it comes, look, and both sides suffer to this, suffer with this, but I think the left suffer with this more.
00:07:13.700It's this purity ritual that you have.
00:07:16.860You have to, you are not left unless you do A, B, C, D, E, F, G, da, da, da, da, da.
00:07:23.260And all of a sudden, the moment you challenge one of those tenants, you're out.
00:08:25.900And you said at the start of this conversation, something that I found very interesting, you basically said that you had reservations about things that had happened before October 7th.
00:08:37.960What were those things that you shut your mouth over?
00:08:41.280And the second part of that question is, do you regret it now, seeing what it's become?
00:08:47.020So let me give you a really specific example.
00:08:49.140When I was running for Congress in 2018, you had the Women's March, and you had elements of the Women's March that were out there with this pro-Palestine, anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic nonsense, very anti-Israel and veering into the most anti-Semitic language that you could possibly have.
00:09:10.100I made the decision to keep my mouth shut, which was a tremendous error in judgment.
00:09:16.280And because people like me shut up in those years, it kept getting worse, and those seeds kept growing, and now it's basically taken over the entire progressive movement.
00:09:28.240But I don't know if it can be saved in time.
00:09:30.960And you can go into any number of issues, like self-ID with trans people or, you know, I remember during Gamergate, you know, there was this expansionist thing that it wasn't enough to talk about the number of women we were hiring in the game industry.
00:09:47.020You know, now we had to obliterate whiteness as something that we were featuring in games.
00:09:52.820And I'm like, it's a little bit extreme, but we'll go along with it.
00:09:56.720So it was just one more step after another.
00:10:06.920I suppose the question that I'm curious about, and I hear people on left and right saying this often, and I don't understand why they say it.
00:10:16.000And you did say it, so I'm curious to explore this.
00:10:43.840And my job is to back-channel specific bills to get them passed.
00:10:48.940So in my view, as soon as you get something like family medical leave and you turn it into a right versus left culture war, you have automatically lost the conversation.
00:11:02.620I guess the reason I ask you, Bran, is that the way I see what's going on, and I'll lay it out for you the way that I see it, and you feel free to pick away at it, challenge, whatever.
00:11:11.940Here's my conception of the culture war as it happens.
00:11:16.160I feel that there is a determined, organized attempt to undermine the basic building blocks of our civilization.
00:11:25.880And those of us who are willing to A, see that, and B, say something about it, are called culture warriors.
00:11:33.460That's what people say about me, for example.
00:11:50.980So if people on the progressive left, and it is people on the progressive left, there are some on the right now, too, in response, I think.
00:11:58.500If there are people who want to say that those building blocks are evil or wrong or bad, I think it's important to push back against that and to prevent them from succeeding.
00:13:00.540What I'm saying is, if we are serious about public policy, it makes a lot of sense to stop treating everyone on the other fucking side like they're your enemy.
00:13:12.440We've got to get buy-in from more people.
00:13:15.960I think my theory of change from here is I think there are a lot of Republicans and moderates out there that think that the corporations are screwing over normal people and they will pass, they will stand with you on policies that address their actual lives.
00:13:31.860They're not going to do that if they've got to pretend all this crazy stuff is true at the same time.
00:13:40.400I think part of the problem, Bihanna, and look, I'm going to be absolutely honest with you when my frustrations with the left is that I see the crazies on the left.
00:13:50.880And I see the moderates, the people who I would listen to, the people I think, actually, you've got a real point here, particularly when it comes to economics.
00:13:59.080And then I'd see them not do anything with the nutters over there.
00:14:02.040And I'm like, well, here's the thing, mate.
00:14:03.840If you're not going to deal with the nutters over here, how are you going to deal with Apple?
00:16:02.620Like, I think it's almost a character flaw.
00:16:05.400But there comes a point, Brianna, where you either let this kind of nonsense continue and you see the decimation of everything that you believe in.
00:17:49.340The question I wanted to ask you, I guess, is you mentioned that six years ago or ten years ago – it's one or two questions I want to ask you.
00:18:00.000People like you would have been criticizing people like us at the time or whatever.
00:18:54.840Why is feminism so unappealing to so many people?
00:18:59.500It's because rather than talking about real policy that will affect people's lives, like daycare for children or working wages or reproductive health care or access to a gynecologist,
00:19:12.160we've defined it to these boutique-like luxury nonsense culture war stuff.
00:19:18.840So normal women are out there going, this is just not relevant to me.
00:19:32.720But once you start trying to convince at least some women that they're supposed to hate men, you're going to lose the audience very quickly because women generally don't hate men.
00:20:27.940Nobody listened to what he was saying.
00:20:29.840Because the agenda was the only way these people could win is because they're racist and because they're evil and whatever.
00:20:38.840And nobody listened to what he was saying.
00:20:40.440And what he was saying is this country is in deep trouble.
00:20:44.280This country is a place where people feel so alienated from the economic opportunities that used to be available to them and their families.
00:20:51.940They feel so alienated from – the general narrative about their country has now become negative, which is why the phrase make America great again works even if you don't like it.
00:21:03.300And I was listening to what he was saying, not from a perspective of like, oh, I'm so enthusiastic about this guy and his political leader being elected.
00:21:12.200But from the point of view of like, maybe there's something he's saying, having just won an election that nobody expected him to win, that people on the left need to take into account so that by the time the next election comes around, you've learned the lessons, you're addressing people's concerns, and now you can come in with your message of, you know, how do we make America work for the working person?
00:21:33.700Like, that's to me the left-wing message, how to get America working for the working person.
00:21:38.560We learned all the wrong lessons from the Trump years, right?
00:21:42.700The correct lesson that the left should have learned from Donald Trump was normal Americans that don't follow politics as closely as people like I do, you know, have five newspaper subscriptions, look at the polls every day, talk to donors, all that kind of stuff.
00:22:00.000Normal people don't think the system is working for them, and they want to break it if you really want to get down to it.
00:22:06.180And instead, we took this, we believe this really comforting lie that half the country was lost and not worth talking to, and they were all racists, and they were disposable, and we stopped even imagining a way to live with one another.
00:22:22.480There's no future for the Democratic Party where we don't get goddamn serious about listening to the people that don't have faith in the system and earning their trust.
00:22:34.660And so much of that starts with the conversation, and we are failing.
00:22:41.120It's not that Biden himself does not stand for this stuff.
00:22:44.140I actually think he's been a really good president.
00:22:46.140But the culture of the Democratic Party is so elitist and arrogant and unwilling to listen to ideas that we don't agree with and treating half the country like they are assholes.
00:23:01.400Like, this is not a formula for a democracy to survive.
00:23:06.700I think it might have been you that said it or came up in conversation that the number one predictor for a marriage failing is not infidelity.
00:23:17.120And when I see, and it's not just progressives here, but also progressives in the UK, the contempt that they have for working class people, and let's be blunt about it, particularly in the UK, and I'm sure over here, white working class people, the way they talk about them, the way they address them, they're rednecks, they're stupid, they're racist.
00:23:36.620And then they go, oh, why didn't you vote for us?
00:23:39.380Like, they're some dumb animal to manipulate.
00:23:43.340So let me tell you what changed my mind on this.
00:23:45.920Like, the big reason, the thing that changed my paradigm on this was running for office because it gets you off of fucking Twitter and out there in the real world where you've got to go knock on doors and just talk to normal people.
00:23:59.800And it's like, oh, shit, the stuff we're talking about on Twitter is not what they believe.
00:24:04.920So I think there's, I think there is a lot of theory crafting in progressive spaces where they've got a lot of academic ideas about how elections and how power works.
00:24:17.060And I think it's fundamentally divorced from reality.
00:24:20.000Now, to be fair, the Democratic Party has been really poor at bringing younger people in and showing them how our system works, how NGP works, how canvassing works, how, you know, get out the vote works, like bread and butter election stuff.
00:24:37.320And that is very much a generational institutional failure.
00:24:41.920But at the same time, like, these people are not showing up.
00:24:45.520There's every single opportunity to do that.
00:24:47.780So go out there in the real world, actually talk to the voters you want to represent.
00:24:52.300And I think we can move forward because I think what a lot of people are frustrated about with the left and progressives in general is focusing on culture.
00:25:24.780I think we don't understand how easy we could have it on the left.
00:25:28.960If we stopped this nonsense and we were a party that unapologetically stood for all those things, for working class people, I think we would take the country for two generations.
00:25:50.180I'm just curious to explore it with you.
00:25:53.120The elite of the Democratic Party, it's probably true of the Republican Party to a large extent, but you'd expect that more, is in hock to the big corporations, the big tech.
00:26:04.560They're all working, colluding together.
00:26:06.520So I guess what incentives do they have to take the correct position on all of this?
00:26:11.980I think that's, I mean, this is the problem with power.
00:26:14.820I can tell you when I ran for Congress, I spent eight hours a day in a chair fundraising, like basically calling for money for my campaign.
00:26:23.480And, you know, it's, it's, you are very beholden to the donors that bring you money.
00:26:29.000This is why a policy I believe in is public financing of elections.
00:26:40.020The incentive structure is just not there.
00:26:42.300And there's a lot of incentives for Democrats to say the right things, but when the votes come up on the House floor to not do the right things.
00:26:51.080So I, in my estimation, y'all may not agree with it.
00:26:54.980I still think we're better than the Republicans, but I think until that changes, people are not going to change their assessment of us.
00:27:02.360And Brianna, you said that you think Joe Biden has been a good president.
00:27:06.840And I know there's going to be a lot of people in the comments who are going to be, shall we say, politely disagreeing.
00:27:36.620You had generals resigning under Trump.
00:27:39.100You had Trump trying to blow up NATO, something I assume you don't agree with.
00:27:42.580You know, there is a path to normalcy for the United States and liberalism, like lowercase liberalism and democracy that, in my estimation, I think Joe Biden stands better for than the competition.
00:27:56.020I don't mean to offend anyone in the audience, but it's really scary to me how much some of the Republican rhetoric is reflecting Vladimir Putin's talking points.
00:28:10.040Now, party side, my left versus right politics ended the United States border.
00:28:15.760And I think Joe Biden has been so much better for our national security than Trump has been.
00:28:20.960Well, that's interesting because I was actually, maybe it's a good opportunity before I jump in for you to lay out some more of the domestic policies that you are happy about.
00:28:30.100Because my personal view, and we can get into this, particularly what you said about NATO, I actually don't think that that's what Donald Trump was doing.
00:28:37.240I think he was trying to get NATO to pay its own way.
00:28:40.440You don't think Trump will blow up NATO if he's reelected?
00:28:43.040My sense of what he was doing, you mentioned about the past, was he was trying to get the NATO member countries to pay their fair share so that NATO would be stronger, so that NATO would not be so reliant on the United States.
00:28:54.880I thought that was, he warned Germany about taking Russian energy.
00:28:58.660He warned them about paying their fair share.
00:29:00.780And I think he's been proven entirely right.
00:29:03.060The one, so the one area of this that I feel that I do understand somewhat is the geopolitical dimension.
00:29:09.360I think Joe Biden has been a disaster.
00:29:11.760His pullout from Afghanistan signaled tremendous weakness, which is, I think, why you end up with Ukraine being invaded afterwards as well.
00:29:19.880So on the geopolitics, I wouldn't agree with you, actually.
00:30:03.620So what I'm saying is not so much, I agree with you, the United States would have been better off destroying Al-Qaeda without staying there forever, right?
00:30:13.480The Taliban would always come back anyway.
00:30:15.680However, the way the pullout was done is the issue.
00:30:48.860And do we have the resolve to back our allies when push comes to shove?
00:30:52.940And what's happened consistently has been, whether that's Afghanistan, whether that's Ukraine, probably Taiwan also, is the United States talks a good game.
00:31:10.720So I really, I think that is a very fair criticism.
00:31:13.560It broke my heart to see the Taliban flag flying over a United States airstrip as that happened.
00:31:19.860Anyone that loves our country and loves democracy and loves Western values, that was a really hard day.
00:31:25.620At the same time, you know, I think if you're talking about why is the United States perceived as weaker than we were, there have been a lot of really good democratic policies.
00:31:37.080I think Operation Infinite Resolve and the fight against ISIS in the Obama years was excellent.
00:31:42.220We've never had a national conversation about how aggressive and excellent Obama was at taking on ISIS and pushing back on this.
00:31:50.900So I think if you look at things like Ukraine directionally, what, in my view, makes us weak is when the Republicans are holding up these bills to provide them arms.
00:32:02.520I think that is a massive error in judgment.
00:32:07.120And I think the Democrats, like I don't have these numbers memorized, overwhelmingly voted for this and barely passed with Republican support.
00:32:44.560What the situation needed and still needs is somebody who is prepared to simultaneously carry a big stick and do a deal at the same time.
00:32:55.020Ultimately, this is how this is going to end.
00:32:56.680And what you need is someone who's going to say, either we do a deal on the basis of what's happening on the ground right now, which means, sadly, Russia is going to get pieces of Ukraine that it didn't have before, in exchange for Ukraine having long-term security.
00:33:11.520And if you, Vladimir Putin, are not going to sign this, then I am going to give the Ukrainians everything.
00:33:17.960That's what the president should be doing.
00:33:19.600And I personally think Donald Trump is far more likely to say that than Joe Biden.
00:33:23.900However, let's just agree to disagree on that.
00:33:30.020You know, we've gotten into this dynamic where we want to make Ukraine just strong enough that they can never lose, but not strong enough that they can never win.
00:35:14.320One of the major criticisms that Republicans and ordinary people are going to have, and please explode any myths, is when it comes to the border.
00:35:24.620There's a lot of people in this country who are very upset, ornery people, very angry.
00:35:30.380They're looking at things like people coming in undocumented.
00:35:55.520You cannot be a feminist and want the status quo on all this drugs coming through.
00:36:01.280You know, I'm sure you saw the video, the viral video a while back, the woman, like, with her children under the barbed wire and all that.
00:36:07.940It is completely normal for a country to need a secure border, and I don't understand why Democrats don't take this exponentially more seriously.
00:36:19.120We can have a conversation about, you know, visas to let people in.
00:36:24.500We can have a very high number of people that we let in, but we've got to secure the border.
00:36:29.400And I think it is eminently fair to say the Democrats have failed at this.
00:36:33.140And you say you don't know, but to me, it seems utterly perplexing because it doesn't, I just look at it and I go, unless you've drunk the progressive Kool-Aid, so we just say, for want of a better word, so much that you think open borders are racist.
00:39:55.140OK, so just carrying down the thread then, give us some some things you think Joe Biden has done that have actually been good domestically, let's say.
00:40:06.240I think the inflation situation, the United States, like every country in the entire world is dealing with inflation.
00:41:55.920The American health care system is completely broken.
00:41:58.820I had a theory of change that if we were out there and we pushed the traditional corporate Democrats hard from the progressive side, that that would get us to better public policy.
00:42:09.620The problem is the progressive left is so crazy nowadays.
00:42:13.440They're worse than the corporate Democrats.
00:42:15.620So we've got to turn this whole ship around.
00:42:32.540My hope in speaking up is I see a lot of people that are in my DMs and they say, Brianna, I agree with you.
00:42:40.640And my hope is if enough people like me stand up and we'll start getting real about this stuff, we can start pushing the crazies out and get the Democratic Party on a path that makes sense.
00:43:18.740Through you to some of the people that follow you that might be interested.
00:43:22.400I really believe, you know, I was in Australia recently and I was at a, I was invited to a dinner where there were a lot of people who were influential in Australia.
00:43:30.660And there were people from both sides of politics there.
00:43:33.360And the person who invited us, he said, look, I don't want the other party to be elected.
00:43:46.180Best possible government for Australia.
00:43:47.700And in that spirit, my view is the only way that the left is actually going to start to have a good impact on society is when, if, when Donald Trump gets elected again, which I suspect he will be, you don't agree?
00:44:10.500I think I see data and I think I have a perspective on the state efforts that probably enforce my opinion on that.
00:44:17.080And you're probably much better informed about it than I am.
00:44:19.460I'm just operating on a general sentiment kind of basis.
00:44:22.000But I guess what I'm saying is the mistake that was made in 2016, which you articulated so well, was a failure to take seriously the concerns of the ordinary American.
00:44:31.360If Donald Trump is elected again, my greatest fear is that instead of doing that, instead of learning the lesson and going, OK, what are we not listening to?
00:44:45.860OK, we've got to, we've got to adjust.
00:44:47.740My worry, and I know this is Francis' worry too, because we talk about it all this time, is if Donald Trump is re-elected, you're going to see a progressive meltdown on a scale that's going to dwarf 2016.
00:45:28.160When did it become, like, inappropriate to be on the left and say you love your country and you respect your police officers and your teachers?
00:47:04.920This is about the fabric of the country coming apart.
00:47:08.300I think you're seeing this in the UK to a lesser degree.
00:47:11.200But, you know, like your politics tend to follow our own.
00:47:14.560So we've got to confront this head on.
00:47:16.900We download your crap very, very readily in the UK.
00:47:22.760I suppose one of the things that I was interested in exploring, Brianna, with you as well is you mentioned when we were talking about you potentially coming on the show that there's probably a lot of areas that we disagree about.
00:48:10.020I want our society to get its shit together because the one unique experience that I have that most people don't have is I've lived outside of this society.
00:48:27.940And the more time we spend on that, the less time we spend realizing that we live in a geopolitical battle of civilizations and we are sliding backwards.
00:49:40.640That was something we needed to take seriously.
00:49:43.200But the lesson we took from that is because his leadership and decisions were so poor and got us into two wars that did not address terrorism.
00:50:15.900And my, well, obviously we all think this about our own position, but my view is, Francis and I have taken a pretty sensible position on it.
00:50:28.540A, to have a broad range of perspectives on.
00:50:31.780We had a trans woman on the show very early, the first person with whom we raised this issue, who absolutely hates our guts now and whatever.
00:50:44.020And we had other people who had different perspectives, everyone from Buck Angel, who I know you know, to people who are very critical of certain things.
00:50:52.480And I thought that their criticisms in some ways were, was excessive, but in other ways really important.
00:50:58.000And the place I think we've both landed in is the place kind of, to some extent, we started in, which is adults should be able to do what they want.
00:52:44.060But they're going through something different than people who medically transitioned.
00:52:48.160So, to come back to your point about children, if you are adding all of that onto who is considered trans,
00:52:57.260of course there are going to be some of those children that are non-binary or just don't like the gender role or confused or gay,
00:53:06.180that transition is not going to serve them.
00:53:08.660So, you know, I personally have the opinion that if you look at the science here, it is not particularly conclusive one way or another.
00:53:18.220We need to double down on the studies we're doing.
00:53:21.100We need to really make a better pathway to serve those children.
00:53:25.840And I do want more of them filtered out.
00:53:27.940So, would you agree with me then that until we have the rock solid evidence, we shouldn't be transitioning kids?
00:53:34.620I think I wouldn't agree with you there because I personally know so many people that are such good friends of mine that this saved their life.
00:53:41.920But what I think would help is progressives are not having an honest conversation with parents.
00:53:49.760And I am not sure gender clinics are either.
00:53:52.480They are saying things like, your child is going to suicide if you don't do this really life-altering thing.
00:54:01.220I think we need to be talking to parents with more respect about all of this.
00:54:04.320One of the things that I actually have a deep level of empathy for a lot of trans people, and trans people have spoken to both of us about it and me individually and all the rest of it is, you know, it's tough dealing with gender dysphoria.
00:54:52.420It's really been, in my view, a real disaster for trans rights to redefine it from a nonpartisan medical issue to this leftist fringe identity issue where you're trying to destroy the idea of gender itself.
00:55:46.480We have to be able to talk about the data, the evidence, without, you know, you're denying trans people's existence and all of this other nonsense.
00:56:08.120I was so upset about this because it was such a deeply reported, amazing piece that was overwhelmingly pro-trans.
00:56:17.840And it was talking about the history of children transitioning and what the reality was in these gender clinics and the pros of it and the cons of it.
00:56:26.640And what did trans Twitter do from open discussion from a reporter that was very, very sympathetic to that cause, that canceled her, that went after her in very personal ways, she had to step away from Twitter.
00:56:43.420If trans people cannot even let the New York Times write an article that is pro-trans healthcare and act like adults, I don't know how they're going to win over normal people.
00:56:57.340Brianna, do they want to win over normal people?
01:00:49.000But, you know, and she's not, she's definitely not one of these crazy, she's, I'm not sure if she's the inspirational candidate that we'd all hope for.
01:01:27.660Well, on that happy note, why don't we wrap up?
01:01:31.220We'll go to locals for questions from our audience.
01:01:33.540But before we do, Brandon, the last question, as you know, we always ask is, what's the one thing we're not talking about that we should be?
01:01:39.460What's the one thing we're talking about that we should be?
01:01:43.640I think that something really scary is going on with young men.
01:01:48.520I saw this during Gamergate, and one of the mistakes I feel I made during Gamergate was treating these young men as if they were monsters.
01:01:59.120And I think the truth is we have two generations of young men that are looking for a path, and they're lost, and they're lonely.
01:02:09.440And Andrea Tate is talking to them in terms they understand, and the Democrats are not.
01:02:14.660So I think that, you know, just talking at the direct, we didn't get a chance to do this today.
01:02:21.080I think if the Democratic Party cannot figure out a way to, yes, talk about women's rights, talk about LGBT rights, but stop telling men that they don't matter, I don't think we're going to win elections.
01:02:33.500So I think we need to get extremely serious about this.
01:02:37.340Yeah, if you want to understand the slide generationally, my generation's male role model in the public, on the internet, is Jordan Peterson, who I think is a great guy.
01:02:47.820I've just been touring with him, so I would say that, but he is a great guy, a really, truly great man.
01:02:53.520And Gen Z's male role model is Andrew Tate.
01:03:29.600And he's telling them very powerful stories about some of the ways to do that.
01:03:35.080You know, you don't have to believe in God or not or whatever.
01:03:37.860It's just a very powerful way of looking at the world and being constructive, productive, creative, you know, passionate, driven, and living a good life and contributing to others.
01:03:51.080But I think that the fact that the next generation is leaning in a different direction tells you quite a lot about what young men are dealing with, what they're being told about who they are, what their role is in the world and the way the economy is changing and all of that.
01:04:42.600So, you know, I really wish the Democrats would make it a project to find our public figures that can talk to those young men in honest ways and try to bring them in.
01:04:56.480And come up with some public policy to make their lives better.
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