The Age of Grievance

And his latest book, "The Age of Grievance" will be released next Tuesday.

And I think that's that's the whole game for America.

We're at this moment in American life and our political discourse, our civic discourse, where people seem to believe if I can shout louder and use a more overwrought, damning vocabulary than the people on the other side, that's how I win the day.

And I think that you see that everywhere.

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Grievance is good.

He did not apologize at that moment. It was like 10 minutes later, 15 minutes later. He did not apologize for having just assaulted Chris Rock, you know, in front of millions of television viewers. He talked about how hard he has it. And there's a line in his speech where he says, you know, nobody kind of understands what you have to... As a celebrity, you have to take all of these people talking about you, and you're supposed to just kind of bear up under it and soldier on. And he's asking for the audience's pity, and he's pitying himself. And he's standing there with a gold Oscar statue as one of the richest and most powerful actors and producers in Hollywood.

And he understood that if he could portray himself not as triumphant, but as wronged, he might get a better reception at this moment in time.

And he's basically been saying that, you know, since 2015, when that first presidential campaign got off the ground. But it became so distilled and clear when I think about a year ago, when he was kind of kicking off this campaign, he used those four words that I think we will be hearing and remembering for a long time, which is, I am your retribution.

He said, we're not going to have a country left if you elect Joe Biden. If you give Democrats unchallenged power, that's the end of America.