The GOP’s post-Trump identity crisis. With Shermichael Singleton. Economic populism. Hegseth’s MAGA play. Football Friday.

The Republican Party just took a beating it didn't see coming — and one of its sharpest young strategists is on the show to say the quiet part out loud. Shermichael Singleton joins Paul Rieckhoff for a candid, no-BS conversation about why the GOP's internal numbers missed the catastrophe, how the silent independent voter delivered the blow, and what it will actually take to rebuild a party that's lost the suburbs, the moral high ground, and any credible claim to being the party of Reagan, Bush, and McCain. Pete Hegseth's selfies at Arlington. Jim Jordan and Stephen Miller consolidating power. A Nvidia CEO shown the door. And nobody — according to Singleton himself — stepping up to lead what comes next.

Paul and Shermichael dig into economic populism as the only honest path forward for a right-of-center party, the widening wealth gap that no amount of tax-cut messaging can paper over, and why most Americans can't absorb a $1,000 emergency in the richest country on earth. They talk about Mississippi's Scott Colom, the Amherst-Williams rivalry, Indiana-USC, LSU-Texas, and whether Aaron Rodgers is a Hall of Famer or a cautionary tale. It's a conversation about what a real opposition looks like when the two-party system is collapsing in real time — and why independents are the ones holding the future in their hands.

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