In 2012, even before we knew that Romney was going to be our opponent, we wanted to define that election as an election about the middle class and about the economy. And then we were fortunate to get Mitt Romney as an opponent who was sort of embodied the Republican Party that we were trying to define. He looked like the monopoly. Yeah. Look like the monopoly also worked out, but it takes a tremendous amount of message discipline to focus in on that message. So I don't think that their culture or bullshit is working very well on the Republican side, beyond riling up their base.And angering liberals,. obviously.
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