i watched it, and it's good. i also don't know who sean kelly is, but recognized him from few short clips on twitter. i agree that he seems open to new information he is presented with, if only because he must have so much fucking practice doing it, because he was absolutely clueless.
he's a "trump supporter", but may not vote at all, and is not sure he's registered, even though he lives in a swing state. he didn't know shit about trump or his history or his policies or his politics nor did he back up his decision to be a supporter with...anything at all. shit, if he spent more time with pakman, he'd probably switch sides, if he didn't (i assume) owe his entire livelihood to yapping to the right flank.
he let pakman run circles around him (which is easy, because kelly was standing completely still). hopefully pakman, like pete before him, is aggressively seeking out these right-wing platforms to talk sense to an audience who likely, like kelly himself, makes no effort to educate themselves. i give him credit for not pushing back, i guess, but it's hard to push back when you literally have no facts (or opinions) on the matters being discussed. "oh i didn't know that" was basically his catch phrase.
obviously, none of this is new. trump voters are low-education voters. low-information citizens. they pride themselves on it. trump loves the uneducated. no fucking shit. white, non-college is his best demo by far.
as a country we've long been divided but only recently (the past ~25 years) has it been so largely based on where we get our information. the myth is that when trump does something, msnbc says "trump bad" while fox news says "trump good". the truth is that msnbc says "trump bad", and fox news says "hunter biden laptop".
it always reminds me of the leadup to the 2nd bartlett election on the west wing, where he's running against the florida gov, played brilliantly by james brolin, who's meant to be a w knockoff, but has more than enough trump overlap. toby and josh struggle with a candidate like that. a candidate that's "good for all time zones". a simple man for simple voters.
toby bemoans a press conference moment where brolin is asked how he'll deal with china, and his response was "i'm gonna show china what a real american leader looks like", to which toby says, "i don't know what that means, but everybody stood up and cheered". and of course josh responds with, "right, which is why i work full time for his opponent."
"is it possible we would be willing to require any less of the person sitting in that chair? the low road?"