Big Data’s Rich Baris warned on his podcast “People’s Pundit” that the window is narrowing for the Republican Party to show it has moved past the politics of Paul Ryan and Wall Street oligarchs.

RICH BARIS, PEOPLE’S PUNDIT: I mean, this all you have to think of, because this is how I do it every day, on the backdrop of the realignment, and after 2024, the success or the failure of the Republican Party and the Trump administration was always going to hinge on whether or not Republicans could complete the realignment, because they haven’t. And whether or not the party would take Donald Trump’s lead and Donald Trump’s successes would be sufficient enough to rebrand the Republican Party into him, his party, his vision, right? Which is built around this idea, and by the way, Tucker Carlson is right, it is the most popular idea perhaps ever to be presented to the American voter. And that is that whatever decisions your government’s going to make or the issues that your government is trying to tackle, the primary question in their mind should be whether or not they’re putting the interests of the American citizens before the interests of the donor class or foreigners or whatever. What is your priority? And this is the number one thing that’s going to hurt Republicans, knowing that. No matter if Trump pivots hardcore or not, guys, from some of the stuff we’re about to show you, which is hurting him badly in the polls, and I’m going to show you this. No matter if he does, I don’t see how that this benefits the Republican Party. The window for the Republicans to show what I just said to you, that they are not the party of Paul Ryan, of George Bush, of Mitt Romney, of oligarchs, of Wall Street, of big donors on K Street, of Israel, of Ukraine, of whatever. They are the party of the working American family. Their window to show the American people that that is true has closed. It’s over. Thanksgiving will be soon. And after Thanksgiving, we’ll get into Christmas. Everybody will be gone. We’ll have the New Year celebration. When we come back from the New Year, there will be some key legislative things that they have to do, but most of Congress will be gone most of the year. They will be campaigning. They will be meeting with donors. And even when they are in D.C. playing legislature, because they’re not really going to be there doing their actual jobs, even when they’re there, they will not take on big, bold, aggressive, controversial agenda items. They don’t do it. That’s not how D.C. works. If Trump was able to get them to do it, he’d be the first one ever in history. He couldn’t do it the first time either. Paul and Kevin rolled him. They did. They rolled him in a second year. They gaslit him. And he ran all over the country for them, trying to get their Senate candidates and some of their House candidates reelected, and they gaslit him. He should know this by now. That’s what they do. They’re professional delay artists, and they’re risk-adverse, and they’re not going to do it. Prove me wrong. I hope you do. But I’m telling you, the likelihood that Congress is suddenly going to change course and do the MAGA agenda is almost zero.

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