and michelle malkin says buy e this book. [laughter] let's get going. the kid from queens and a young man from south carolina writing about global populism, brexit, maga, the yellow vests. >> i'll just start by saying i actually started my career in politics as a democrat. and i made the transition to the republican party because i found that i, frankly, misunderstood what the democratic party stood for. i thought it was a party that would fight for small business owners. i thought it was a party that would fight to grow the wages and the working conditions of workers around the country. nothing could be further from the truth. what we saw was that 2016 was a total, complete revolt against the forward interests that have tried to drive down wages whether it's through globalization or illegal immigration, and i retired traveling all over the country, ohio, pennsylvania, in the midwest, and i would see these gutted towns. and i would say this doesn't make sense. something's fundamentally wrong here. and elites in both parties, democrat and republican, sai