This week Beth and I went live with Ben Meiselas over at Midas Touch, and y’all — it was a good one.
We talked about what’s actually happening in Kentucky: bourbon getting hammered by tariffs, the river in my hometown sitting fifteen feet over flood level, neighbors I went to high school with losing their homes — and the stark contrast between a Governor who shows up (Andy Beshear, every time) and a president who can’t bring himself to speak to a natural disaster, even when the people suffering voted for him.
We got into the question I get asked all the time: why do people keep voting for him? I tried to be honest. Most folks aren’t engaging with politics the way the 2,000 of us on a Thursday Live are. They’re piecing it together from a TikTok here, a Fox News screen at the doctor’s office there. And we underestimated the decades of cultural capital this man built up — Home Alone 2, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, the whole American psyche.
But mostly we talked about what to do now. Local protests. Town halls. School boards. Running for office. Stepping into the void of leadership instead of poll-testing your way around it. Ben called it “campaigning for humanity,” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that phrase since.
If you found us through Midas Touch — welcome. We are so glad you’re here. We’ve been doing this for ten years, two moms with law degrees in Kentucky, trying to process the news with curiosity instead of outrage. Pull up a chair.
Watch the full conversation below, and keep it nuanced, y’all.
