They're the geeks. The jocks like it. Ted Nail. It's like high school, but nobody ever gets out of the sophomore year. And the second reason I wrote the book, I wanted to help people understand in real time why in Washington, normal is just a setting on the clothes dryer. This place is a different world. And the third reason I wrote it was to try to make people understand that it doesn't have to be this way if we have a return to common sense. (13:54–14:07)
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Asserts that his book aims to explain why normalcy is elusive in Washington, D.C.
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