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growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. thats not true. there were plenty of adu...

Narrative and then the pandemic happened and they dropped it for a while and now they are back in this game. they realize they think they have a winning political issue with the center. i dont know if they do, but they believe that this anti-tr ha ns panic is something they can latch on to in mainstream politicians and so far politicians like ron desantis have been happy to oblige. >> theres the weirdosphere, i dont go on 4chan, but its now migrated much like a lot of ideas of anti-immigrant, yo...

>> caravan. >> correct. caravans. i feel its actually offensive. theyre presuming, these people have racist undertones. pick them and get them to be freaked out by brown and black people or anything about people of color or immigrants. it is sort of a pretty horrible statement about wa they think about their own base. you know? >> the first rule of public speaking is know your audience. theyre making comments in public. so its a cynical ploy but the problem is not the cynicism. the problem is th...

Man. there was after world war ii when we were the hero of the world, all the way up to a guy named barack obama and over the objections of white voters, he gets elected by ten million votes and he gets re-elected by five million votes. that women are out of place and doing things that they dont want them to do and asserting power. black people are demanding power, a share of power. these voters dont want to share power. its less you can do about that. if it was economics, you could do an econom...

And donald trumps influence over the party is so great that you hear the leanings towards russia where this used to be a reagan-ite party. you have a recent public policy poll showing that canadas favorable rating is down to 54%. trump has incredible influence over the base. in a sense, republican politicians dont have much choice. if they want to get re-elected, the base belongs to donald trump there is a lot of demographic panic. >> theres an irony, really that success is almost killing the re...

Absolutely. >> excuse me. what did you just say? >> youre talking about anchor babies. >> no, birtherism, im talking about donald trump doubting that the president of the united states is an american, accusing him of faking his birth certificate. this is the -- >> i didnt realize that was a policy. >> african american judge who might be offended by birtherism could not preside over a case involving donald trump if they were offended -- >> that doesnt make any sense at all whatsoever. black peopl...

Panic out there among the electorate, and we bring you in as our panic expert. >> demographic panic. >> exactly. we hit the demographic panic button, and you appear in a cloud of smoke. i think jonathan raises -- its an incredible piece. a really good analysis in "new york magazine." it puts this in a larger context as sort of republican maneuvers top cement more power for an increasingly smaller piece of the american electorate, which is to say almost the minority piece, and that not minority i...

Said, in places where there isnt even a border, where theyre not seeing this as a direct impact on their -- but theyre so passionate about this issue of keeping people out, do you read that as demographic panic. we dont want those people here and we dont care if they take their kids. >> i dont specifically read it that way. i get it from a religious segment. were rewarding people. theyre breaking the law. were not upholding the law. through a is often confused now. i think where the president is...