What do you think about the addicts of Donald Trump
Well, actually...
I think we should recognise that the other candidates are not that different.
I mean, if you take a look at...
I'm just... Take a look at their views.
Oh, they... tell you their views.
And they're astonishing.
So just to keep to Iran, uh...
A couple of weeks ago, the two front-runners,
they're not the front-runners any longer,
were Jeb Bush and Scott Walker.
And they differed on Iran.
Walker said, we have to bomb Iran, uh,
when he gets elected, they're gonna bomb Iran immediately.
the day he's elected.
Uh, Bush was a little, you know he's more serious.
He said he's gonna wait to the first cabinet meeting.
And then he'll invade Iran.
I mean, this is just off the spectrum of
not only international opinion, but even relative sanity.
This is, I think, owns than a manner correct.
It's a radical insurgency.
It's not a political party. You can tell that even by the votes.
I mean, any issue of...
any complexity, is gonna have some diversity of opinion.
But when you get a unanimous vote,
to kill the Iranian deal, or the Affordable Care Act,
or whatever the next thing may be, you know you're not dealing with a political party.
So it's an interesting question, why that's true.
I think what actually happened, is that...
during the whole, so-called "neo-liberal period" last generation,
both political parties have drifted to the right.
Today's Democrats are what used to be called "moderate Republicans."
The Republicans have just driffted off the spectrum.
They're so comitted to extreme wealth,
and power, that they cannot get votes.
Can't get votes, by presenting those positions.
So what has happened is that they've mobilised
sectors of the population
that have been around for a long time.
It is a pretty exceptional country in many ways.
One is, it's extremely religious.
It's one of the most extreme-fundamentalist countries in the world.
And... By now, I suspect the majority of the base of the Republican Party is...
evangelical Christians.
The extremists, not the little mixture, but these...
are the extremist ones.
Nativists suer afraid that, you know, they are taking...
our white Anglo-Saxon country away from us.
People who have their guns when they go into Starbucks,
'cause, who knows, they might kill an islamic terrorist and so on...
I mean, all of that is part of the country,
and it goes back to colonial days, there are real roots to it.
But these have not be an organized political force in the past,
They are, now. And that's the base of the Republican Party.
And you see it in the primaries.
So yeah, Trump is maybe... comic relief,
but it's just...
It's not that different from the mainstream,
which I think is more important.
