is an attack on our democracy ininstigated by the president of the united states and now enabled by one of the major legacy parties of the country. an attack on our democracy, physical terrorist attack on our democracy is now being enabled by one of the major two political parties. so this date, 1/6, january 6th, needs to know indelible in our minds and we shouldn t forget it. the democrats i hope will run on this in 2022, but mostly i hope we get to the truth. but i hope the american public burns this in their heart and soul about what happened. well, and, you know, luke, i was watching over on fox news to see how much of the hearing they were taking. for most of the clips that i showed, most of that was aired on fox news. i wonder what you make of how serious it is to sort of breaking down many, many months
who tried to undermine democracy. is it is it is it just a passing moment? no, it s not a passing moment. i mean, we re we re i mean, we re was the civil war a passing moment? i mean, our country went through heck over it. you wouldn t call that a passing moment. i don t think this is. the republican party, as you and i have talked before about, is gone as what we knew before. one of our two legacy parties has become a party that is anti-democratic and autocratic. and that s the party. and i in my view, i understand world leaders questions about america, in this moment. because i think they look at it, and they think, okay, donald trump s gone. why is this still taking place, moop among the rest of the gop? and so, they have concerns about whether or not we can we re going to last, as a democracy and leader in the world in this. i think joe biden i think wanted my guess is wanted to figure out a way to work with the republicans. but over the course of the
years, it s gotten worse. i mean, donald trump has an 82% favorability rating among the republican base. margorie taylor greene and matt gaetz are more popular than mitt romney and liz cheney in the republican party. anybody in the republican party that add mitts to a common set of facts, that wants to investigate what happened on january 6 is basically almost impossible to win in a primary in this country. so to me, i agree that we re at a crucial point in our democracy. probably as crucial as we were in 1860 or 1861 in what we had, because we have one of the two major legacy parties that is occupied by conspiracy theorists, charltons, and people that push for huge conflict 234s our country. to me, the only path forward is decimating losses to be suffered by the republican party in a series of elections.
if abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, ike eisenhower or ronald reagan showed up to the meeting today. they would be thoroughly booed at this point in time. it sin seeped in. it s part of the ecosystem of cpac, part of the ecosystem of the republican party. and that s what the fundamental problem today in democracy is. we have two legacy parties but only one that currently supports democracy as it stands, and is willing to dealst from a place facts. and i think that s what we have to all struggle with in the media and in politics, how do we deal with a political party that ispo no longer honest? i want to drill down on that, matt. take a listen first to what republican congressman adam kinzinger said today earlier on meet the press. to all of my colleagues in politics, let megu say this to you. you either have to be a zombie for the maga belief system, whatever that is today or tomorrow, it varies every day based on donald trump s whims, or actually stand up and tell your constitue