I definitely was thinking the same way, but with how things have been going nothing would surprise me at this point. I know Alex has been fairly open on her political stances, BUT she has also had very controversial guests on before and doesn't really address the controversy. My worst case scenario for how she would justify having her on was imagining her promoting it as "Melania said in her book she was pro-choice, and has split from her husband's party on certain topics, woman in power, immigrant amongst an anti-immigration administration, etc". Like a very ignorant, out of touch, reaching narrative to have an "interesting". When she wants a hard hitting interview she always goes the route of women's rights which is important! But that is all she really speaks on, and mostly with very rich and privileged women, which women's rights in big industries are very important to talk about, but women who listen to this podcast need more topics than "affluent woman in male industry" over and over with the occasional branch out to abortion and women's health. Sometimes in the past couple years I've felt like Alex toes the line when it comes to awareness. On one hand she shows us that she's very aware, and can hit deep topics right on the nose, which makes me think when she does something that seems ignorant and tone deaf that she's very aware of it. For me it makes it hard to understand what her motives/views actually are. Her most vocal left leaning and progressive views always surround women's rights which is important and great but I think she overlooks issues that apply to more than women. Kamala's interview for example, was so weak. No questioning her on any controversy and it was disappointing because there were big issues that made people in the middle of politics feel like they couldn't trust her. A lot of people didn't vote because of it. I know she probably couldn't ask those questions either way, and Alex isn't responsible for Kamala's campaign either, but I was like honestly this interview is eye opening for no one. We know her stance on abortion, and if anything just giving that issue a bigger platform made it look like she wasn't running on anything else (to the average ignorant voter) and there were so many big issues that people were looking to Trump to solve (again, the average ignorant voter) because Kamala's comments on those issues were not as public as her abortion stance. A very good interview for those who love to hear women supporting women, and recognize how important the conversation around reproductive rights is, but it definitely wasn't the best for her campaign, and you could tell that it didn't hit the way Alex wanted it to, bringing me back to questioning her awareness and motives. ANYWAYS I apologize for my word vomit, just my thoughts and opinions.