There is post-traumatic stress syndrome from Trump, and so that that is really his task and his -- and it is important because the Chinese are telling people, you know, you can't really rely on democracies and America to be consistent in their commitments because democracy is too fragile.
Axelrod discusses the challenges Biden faces in reassuring allies about America's reliability after the Trump administration.
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I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.
I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.
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