Lets get some things straight. I have said from the very beginning, I am not a never Trumper. At no point did I ever endorse Harris, at no point did I ever say I preferred to see her be the president. As a matter of fact I said the opposite. I have been saying I love Trump, and that he will be a better president, and that if he wins we will be fighting in the administration for control.
And I even said before the election, I want it to happen - I want to see Trump win.
We as the radical wing of Trumpism - I am a radical. I am not an infiltrator, I am not a reformer, I am not a party guy, I am a radical. I have always been a radical. I do depart from Trump on several key issues. And I have always advocated using our power as radicals to move Trump to the right. That's why I supported Ye, and why I took a detour with Yang.
I have been saying, from day 1, we have to create a pain mechanism for the republicans. There has to be a carrot and a stick. If you're good, we vote, if you're bad, we don't vote. I advocated the same thing in the 2022 midterms.
This election we saw over and over again, Trump disavowed Project 2025 - he said "we want more immigration than ever", "we want to staple green cards to diplomas", he reconnected with Netanyahu - I said we have to withhold our vote.
We have to show that if you betray your base, if you hire disloyal people, we will not support them.
And you know what? It worked. If I didn't say I was withholding my vote, no one would care about these issues. If I said "of course I'm going to vote for Trump" - and I had all my complaints - all of that would buy me a cup of coffee.
But when you say "I'm not voting" - that is the one thing they really don't like. And that's why I've been attacked over the last few months, smeared, "Oh he's a democrat", "Oh he's a Kamala supporter", "Oh he's a fed".
But we have to use our vote, or withhold it. That is our only leverage.