His exercise in innuendo and lateral thinking across contemporary events seems like a description of America being .. America. The bits don’t quite fit together in real life too. The WH chief of staff being powerful in the WH is not a unique or unusual manifestation. The Harris call with Biden in the video towards the end really was Biden if you listen to the longer version. As usual the answer to the question “so what does he think actually happened?” lies just over the horizon, but fevered imaginations can maybe piece it all together?

The biggest story in all of this may be that the Republicans have managed to reinvent themselves from the grassroots upwards (if you listen to the Cheadle grilling you will see it this incisive combination of directness with quality quick wittedness) while the Dems are still a stinking corpse.