[ cheering ] >> the media, i think, immediately fell in love with sarah palin.dlessly talkable. >> sarah palin is speaking to her generation of women. >> and now she even has her own action doll. >> we were getting a lot of pressure from the party. like, you guys got to take down palin. she is going to win the race for mccain. obama was super chill. he was like, i'm not worried about it, it is me and mccain. >> turns out one of his earliest supporters is a man named bill ayers who according to "the new york times" was a domestic terrorist. and it sure would be nice if even just once he would say that he wants america to win! >> the thing i think that was the most jarring for people who were watching what she was doing were the ways in which she just openly invited white americans to hate barack obama. >> now, this is not a man who sees america as you and i see america. this, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids and not your kids. >> there were a lot of code words. i mean sarah palin had her role

it is sarah palin's america. it is white identity politics. it is the america that sees itself as the backbone of the country and to be honest, it is white, christian america in the rural areas and small town. it goes back to jacksonian america. those were his supporters. william jennings bryan, the big populist. and even george wallace in a much more virulent form. it is a long thread that connects this narrative, which is a populist narrative and which in our time saw sarah palin as john the baptist to the coming of donald trump. and trump brought real america to the forefront of our politics, and yet it is a rebellion against free america because it is a rebellion by ordinary republican voters against the shibboleths, the cliches of reaganism -- free trade, immigration, low taxes, deregulation. none of that spoke to sarah palin's people, or even donald trump's people, because they were living in deteriorating places, in post-industrial cities, in small towns that were kate -- that were decaying as main streets had boarded up shots. it was n

none of that really spoke to sarah palin's people and even donald trump's people.they were living in deteriorating places in postindustrial cities, and small towns that were d king as main streets a lot of boarded up shops. it was really no longer the sunny optimism of reagan became darker and hostile to group seen as alien. whether to delete on the coast or black americans are all others. surreal america is a rebellion from free america they've had a very uneasy coexistence in the republican party with free america continuing to dominate the top with mitch mcconnell and the koch brothers. but real america are the voters the republican party now has to pay homage and kowtow to that. and finally, ontologically in the last five or six years we've seen an explosion of a new narrative that is also an old narrative. it is the narrative of social justice critical just america. it is generational it's really for people under 40 who have looked at their parents promises, the liberal parents of promises, smart america and said this is a lie. we are not getting better. we ar

so if you wanted to discount sarah palin, you could be like the beauty queen, you know, you can you could say, yes. she the only picked her because she's pretty you know at the same time people would if you wanted to turn against hillary clinton, you could criticize her for being not young and gorgeous and all that sort of stuff. and so it's that's very much a theme in american politics is a concentration on the bodies, especially the body of women. and this happens for my period on so the bodies of men are important in this in that size matters. they like politicians to be big and sort of powerful and women's bodies become this very contested space as well. but the fear of being unmanned would you may remember we talked about was very deeply threatening when the english saw the native americans and saw the change in gender roles their fear was that they would somehow slide into this and lose their masculinity is a theme that we're going to see over and over again. my dear, thank you so much. we are out of time. yes. have a great day. thank you very much. yes, absolutely. and right there

remember a long time ago when i looked a lot like sarah palin and everyone was like, "you should playas, it was the middle of the pandemic when we shot this whole show and we just kept being like, "let's just -- we're going to try to get dolly parton to maybe really do this crazy episode where dawn is, like, hallucinating that she meets dolly parton and then we kept trying to like contact dolly parton and then - >> jimmy: covid.ing out, it wasd then it was like this shoots day who's already covid tested and in the system? and it was me. [ laughter ] and that's how i've gotten most acting jobs i ever had "who's around. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "who's around? >> that's how i got "update" with you, like, "oh, she's around." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: think of recent jokes, yeah. >> and so i tried to come up with dolly parton. and if you get peacock, you can see if i did it. >> jimmy: but how -- but is there any secrets? >> so i tried to do a thing. so i kept watching, like, different things and i kept watching that christmas movie and stuff she did. and i kept watching -- and then the only thi

. >> and the media was so nice to sarah palin. >> i'm not going to mix apples and oranges, i'll callwere candidates and other she's a vice president. i think also it's very early in the vice president's term, she had one on the campaign trail yet, and what she has been doing is raising money for the parties and doing that very effectively so she's doing part of her job effectively and we have to see what happened. >> greg: i don't think joe picked her, that's the first part. the dems thought they actually drafted capable quarterback in her but they got an erratic place kicker who with almost all the kicks. and she's not into it, she doesn't like it. she's got nervous laughter and the exhaustion. i was a tech writer and it was so over my head, talking in vagaries and generalities, exactly what she did. i thought her flaws could be remedied but always give the impression that she was a light weight and with the wrong person for the wrong job but it hasn't changed. what made it worse was even the root cause term paper that they assigned her. it felt like it was an assignment that i did

it started with the verbalization from sarah palin and then became actionable by donald john trump. >> and amanda, i want to switch gears just a bit, cnn has learned a top adviser to top house minority leader kevin mccarthy tried to rehabilitate the reputation of congresswoman marjorie taylor greene by setting up a visit to the holocaust museum and an apology for her remarks. fast forward to this week, greene is comparing vaccine workers to brown shirts under adolf hitler. again, i've asked this before on this program with morniarjorie taylor greene, what's with the nazi talk? i just don't get it. >> it was pretty bad when she essentially stalked a shooting survivor who went to capitol hill to advocate for gun control measures. that was before she became a member of congress, and still kevin mccarthy welcomed her into the poll. she went and did her little museum tour, laughed in their face and doubled down on the nazi references. this gets down to not so much marjorie taylor greene but the fact that kevin mccarthy is such a weak republican leader. they laugh in his face. he can't stop

i'm old enough to remember when it was sarah palin, then we shall blackmon, than donald trump and nowite nationalists in congress. supporeven if the party leadersp wanted to stop all this and they don't seem to want to, they couldn't. the ship has sailed, it's too late, this is what they grand old party is now. >> it seems difficult to do so. you're absolutely right. i think in the wake of the donald trump presidency, he left a huge constituency of these individuals on the far-right. i think what we see now are individuals who are left in the republican party trying to scrape up those constituents. there are a large number of affected individuals who still feel as though the election was stolen, and individuals like paul gosar and others. they see it as an opportunity. they see it as a political opportunity for themselves and unfortunately it serves both politicians to get those constituents and it serves the far-right constituents because of the legitimacy of having a politician on their side. >> and jennifer, no one expects kevin mccarthy to do anything about your brother, but what

i remember sarah palin, michelle backman, donald trump, now it's in congress.hat the grand old party is now. >> seems extremely difficult to do so, i think you're absolutely right. in the wake of the donald trump presidency, left a huge constituency of individuals on the far right. what we see now are individuals left in the republican party trying to scrape up the constituents. large number of disaffected individuals who feel the election was stolen, and officials see it as a political opportunity for themselves. unfortunately serves politician to get the constituents and serves far right constituents, because they get the legitimacy of having a politician on their side. >> yeah. jennifer, no one expects kevin mccarthy to do anything about your brother but what about the democrats? hear more public criticism of his role in the insurrection and big lie from his siblings than from nancy pelosi or other house democratic leader. >> we've been scratching our heads to figure it out as well. they're in every way, shape or form, a lynch mob going after mike pence, and

when i think about walker, i think about the likely be the sarah palin of this election.d think that somehow it will make your trash policies more palettable. it's not going to work. >> i kind of thought it was an audition tape. we'll see. greg, let me ask you. kemp has set fundraising records. so brian kemp has raised $12 million a cycle that's pretty impressive. he's been fund fundraising off him. is he safe? he has this crazy guy running to the right of him, if that's even imaginable. can he pull it off? >> he's one of the most vulnerable governors in the nation. if not thee most. because he not only faces an expected challenge from abrams next november, he also has pressure from the right. not just from vernon jones, but he's one of the republicans running against him, but there are others who are rum nling about a potential race maybe with donald trump support. we know that donald trump has vowed repietedly to rally for some sort of opponent to governor kemp. he hasn't endorsed jones, a former democrat yet, but he's likely to at least weigh in on this race increasing

. >> i remember when sarah palin first hit the scene a decade ago or more she started talking about then college campuses talking about the administration. i think we've come full circle now to attacking police officers. you know, if you watch these guys, they're not like a liberal progressives. these are blue collar working class guys. my dad was a prison guard for 30 years. my father-in-law was a police officer. i mean, these were, for a long time, the people that if you were a republican or a conservative, you were brought up respecting and revering. obviously there are problems with the police. you know, we acknowledge that. i believe in police reform. but the idea that it would be conservatives who are, you know, bashing these guys who are putting their lives on the line, and women as well in many cases. it really is the opposite of the kind of conservativism and we grew up with and as you mentioned, joe, the kind that attracted people who maybe were fdr democrats once upon a time to the republican party. >> and it is crazy. again, we were in the suburbs -- northern suburbs of atla