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Up that double barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face. >> greg: no doubt that was pretty dumb, but can don beat that? >> democratic cities are in chaos right now. crime is rising. oh, my gosh, it is so bad. bad. defunding police. >> the president is a racist and a demagogue. >> believing lies on the internet instead of science. is time to start changing that. or leave them behind. >> they dont know what they eat. >> i dont have it now. ive got all these wrinkles co...

Election to within doubt. you know that. >> this there were allegations of election fraud. no, there went. billware was the attorney general for christs sake, and rudy giuliani took his allegations of fraud to dozens of courts. and there wasnt any. why is this person, ted cruz, still on tv saying that? >> this is a historically despicable person. he ranks up there with joe mccarthy. hes a demagogue. hes a liar. hes as irresponsible united states senator as there has ever been in the history of t...

Leading thing. so i think this is where you get that dangerous combination of people that are swept up in a moment, maybe dont understand all of the forces that are going on behind the scenes. but when pointed in the right direction by a demagogue or an idea log, when pointed to the right place at the right time when you have more violent elements it can tip off this cascade of violence that we saw on january 6th. i bet many are out there and remorseful. the question is how do we reach out to th...

Um, when we wrote the -- when we wrote "how democracies die" four years ago, we were -- um -- worried about the republican party because they allowed donald trump to be elected. they sorted dropped the ball and -- and failed to protect our democracy from authoritarian demagogue. but we did not expect that the entire republican party would evolve into an anti-democratic force. and thats where they are today. the entire republican party leadership, with a small handful of exceptions, is now no lon...

You see this moment were in? >> it is pretty dark, i agree with you, anderson. um, when we wrote the -- when we wrote "how democracies die" four years ago, we were -- um -- worried about the republican party because they allowed donald trump to be elected. they sorted dropped the ball and -- and fwailed to protect or democracy from authoritarian demagogue. but we did not expect that the entire republican party would evolve into an anti-democratic force. and thats where they are today. the entire...

Again, grassley is the man who said what trump tried with pence was unconstitutional. the senator is lying. grassleys own committee found that trump pressured top doj officials nine times to overturn the election. trump summoned them to the oval office. he wasnt the audience. trumps own lawyer laid out a coup blueprint for mike pence to follow step by step. trump asked georgia secretary of state to find him 11,780 votes. the truth is obvious. and that makes grassley and all the others insistent ...

40 years, right down the toilet, grassley. right down the toilet. trump rejected all of that. again, grassley is the man who said what trump tried with pence was unconstitutional. the senator is lying. grassleys own committee found that trump pressured top doj officials nine times to overturn the election. trump summoned them to the oval office. he wasnt the audience. trumps own lawyer laid out a coup blueprint for mike pence to follow step by step. trump asked georgia secretary of state to find...

Hes the standard bearer for the party. what does this mean for the future of the gop? >> reporter: first of all, christine, donald trump doesnt have relationships with any other individual. hes got a relationship with himself and he judges his interactions with every other person by whether theyre helping donald trump or not. the republican party is in a very bad place because of that reason. donald trump is a dishonest demagogue. he is trying to feed his fantasies about having won the election....

With the party because its not -- the threat to democracy is not that great. im curious your response to that. >> i dont know whether this is just ridiculous whistling past the graveyard of democracy or whether this is arguing so he can continue to support the party hes always supportsuppor. i dont think you can look at the evidence thats being uncovered, the judiciary report and not see that there was a grave threat to democracy. i dont know how you look at the wave of voter suppression and vot...

Thats straight from a demagogue and a dictators rule book. this is how we get into deep, deep trouble. >> cynthia, as someone who is steeped in research on polarization, how do you diagnose this fact? you have trumps control of the party, youve got a wing of people who are ferociously on his side. theres a relatively small number of people saying the election was stolen and then you have a much broader swath who are kind of willing to play footsie. what does that add up to about what the party n...