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Top Trump officials are embroiled in a scandal after they accidentally included a journalist on an insecure text thread containing top secret military information. David French, a former military lawyer, explains why this is a no laughing matter, what it says about the administration's competency, and why there is unlikely to be any consequences for those at fault. Then, Skye and David discuss the future of the Democratic Party. Can they distance themselves from their fringe activists groups? What will it take for working-class Americans to reconsider their allegiance to Trump? And will they use this opportunity to genuinely reform the party, or just wait for MAGA to implode?

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Matthew Rowland

I’m disappointed that two such thoughtful, intelligent, Christian men would summarize the problem with the Democratic political platform as its embrace of ‘identity politics’ without acknowledging the origins and evolution of this stance. The Democrat Party, without any real unified intention, ended up being the party that attempted to deal with racism in our laws and customs in the 1950’s & 1960’s. The ‘identity’ then that was not believed to deserve full rights and recognition in the United States was black. Whether or not that recognition of African-American civil rights was successful is unfortunately still an open question. What is not an open question is that we continue to discriminate against individuals whose identities we are uncomfortable with. Whether or not we should allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports is a distraction from the critical moral issue of treating them with respect. I wouldn’t argue that the Democrats fought discrimination as the right thing to do separate from political calculations. But there is a moral element to this position, in no small part grounded in the Gospels, that is missing from the gloss you, as Christians, have given the political challenges of the Democrats.

Timothy Richard

It’s hard for me to not be cynical about a life-long Republican operative giving an assessment of what his opposition “should” be doing. Especially as the “extremists” AOC and Sanders draw record crowds. David’s thoughts should be held in a similar light as the fox’s opinions on henhouse security against snakes. The lumping of popular economic and social policies as extremist identity politics ignores the political sentiments that got Trump into office twice and could get a populist dem like AOC or Sanders into a national office. Working and middle class Americans are caught in the whims of a billionaire class and the success of Trump is tapping into the anger from it. The “moderation” of the Democrats as expressed in Schumer is nothing more than an alignment with the interests of billionaires. Hillary didn’t lose the election because she used pronouns, she lost the election because she gave a special speech at Goldman Sachs. The Democratic Party loses the favor of the working class American at its own peril. And any messaging about identity politics being destructive to the party is just an outflow of the Fox-flavored GOP.