You Are Loved.

I want to share with you something I’ve been thinking about in the face of Musk’s third-party chatter and Trump’s latest theatrics.

I believe politics in America has completely lost the thread.

We’re obsessed with performance, with power grabs and economic charts, with influencers and posturing and all the rest of it. We’re so caught up in the spectacle that we’ve forgotten the one thing that actually matters: the love we show each other, and the care we offer the people closest to us.

For me, that’s been made clearer than ever as I look back on my 73 years. I see my grandchildren, my wife Genie—who’s been my partner for 55 years—and I realize that what makes a life worthwhile has nothing to do with the headlines. It’s about the small, human acts of kindness and loyalty. It’s about relationships that last through hardship, even when you’ve wanted to give up on them. And it’s about seeing in someone else’s eyes that you’re worth loving, that you’re enough, just as you are.

That’s the lens I use to look at every political fight, every debate about policy. Because in the end, if it doesn’t make it a little easier for people to love and be loved—if it doesn’t help them feel more secure and cared for—it’s just more noise. So let me share with you what I believe politics should really be about: a vision that starts not in the White House or Wall Street, but in the eyes of the people we love most.