party politics, whose constituents are conservatives, and neighbors, who are trump devotees. this extremism, this acceptance of coercion, of political violence, or the threat thereof, of terror, of just insane harassment as a tactic, it's really powerful. i think it's fair to say, i really believe this, that it is completely subverted the ability of the republican party themselves to genuinely run a free and fair election within their own party, to choose their own nominee. because not only is there this ever-present threat, everyone in the upper echelons of the party also understands that donald trump will never accept defeat. you're having a contest with a guy who, is he going to accept defeat? they understand it, because of january 6th, but they understand it before that. they understand it because of 2016, when trump lost the iowa caucuses, and he reportedly pressured state republicans to invalidate the results. does that sound familiar?