John D.S. Allen: “I think that resignation was just completely inconsistent with the psychology of the man.”

I`ve never seen anything like it, Brian. The alacrity with which the Democratic Party joined behind Joe Biden after he won South Carolina is something that we`ve never seen before.

The question is, how do you define it. And I think many of the cardinals who are coming into this election from other parts of the world who are kind of in an anti-establishment mood, to be honest with you, what they mean by reform are…

I support the vaccine mandate. I wrote about this in The Washington Post last month. We hit the limit of the voluntary approach. We’ve tried the hand-holding, we’ve tried cajoling, we’ve tried the beer and the lotteries. It’s not working…

These conversations are remarkably frank. This is not attack-ad politics, but they are extraordinarily conscious of how much hinges on this decision.