What on earth is going on in this country? What is going to happen with Joe Biden? How did the Democrats get into this pickle? Are they is their goose completely cooked? Hello out there in podcast land. This is Rui Tasharou, the host of the liberal patriot podcast, coming at you with one of our biweekly podcasts as a Chinese say, may you live in interesting times, and we do live in interesting times. And as part of that, at our podcast, I try to bring the very finest in heterodox conversation and analysis with the most interesting and stimulating guests. And today I'm totally delighted to have my old pal, Henry here to talk about all things political with me. Henry is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He writes for National View Online and also for the New York Post and various other outlets. And he has a podcast beyond the polls. So you should totally check him out. And I think you maintain a pretty active Twitter feed, right? I do. Yeah. OK. So there's ways to check him out there as well. But any rate, the thing you should that stuff. You should be listening to this and what we're going to get into. So, so Henry, I guess the first question I want to ask you is why is populism so damn popular? What is it about that straight up politics that seems to be so potent today? And is it on the decline?