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As anything else. >> all right. thank you both. thank you, laura, max. appreciate it. i want to turn now to fareed zakaria, host of fareed zakaria gps. its clear our democracy is in peril. even establishment republicans are going all in with trump and his big lie, and trump is trying to purge anyone who comes out against him and install supporters in key states. do you see this as a slow-moving coup or a medium-moving coup or fast-moving coup? how do you see it? >> its very fast-moving in the ...

Current incumbent of the white house, and that is joe biden although thats much debated apparently through the big lie. that is in fact joe biden holds the privilege, and he is not the one asserting it. >> so, max, adam schiff said the committee will move as fast as possible. here he is. >> the former president of the united states is still out pushing the big lie, the same big lie that led people to attack this building and beat police officers and put our lives at risk. so, yes, we feel a sens...

Freedom House Democracy Index ranked America as a declining democracy. Is the American system itself flawed or can it recover?

Ex-Republican and Washington Post columnist Max Boot added to his long roster of pieces Monday announcing his sole support for Democrats.

Last fall, which means if those two men are in power in any way, next time, theyll go along with it because they have been completely bullied and beaten down. are you -- do you think the democrats are afraid enough? because i see them out there arguing whether it will be a billion there and another billion there and will that matter if we dont have a democracy. >> yeah, i want to just say its because of max boot. what saves a democracy is the protection of its institutions and that is what democ...

Literally mean the end of free elections. and yet, for democrats, the challenges of winning and retaining office is twofold. they have to overcome the built in disadvantage at the ballot box baked into the system to advantage rural voters and portion of electoral votes, jerry band er gerrymandered. republicans have spoken out in support of electing democrats. as max boot writes, im a single issue voting. her says simply put, i have no faith that we will remain a democracy for republicans to win ...

Communities of color in texas. and so the rhetoric is really dangerous, but it puts us on a pathway to the autocracy that we talked about before. if an elections official doesnt conduct an election the way that you want, you rip the power away from them. if the outcome is not what you want, you change the rules of the game. if the president who is duly elected is not the president that you want, you strip power away from him or her. were living in a really dangerous time, and i think that -- im ...

A victim of election fraud conspiracies. an elections administrator submitted her resignation friday following a months long effort by residents and officials loyal to former president trump to force her out of office. michelle carue who had overseen scores of elections found herself transformed into the public face of an election system which many came to mistrust. her critics sought to abolish her position and give her duties to an e lektsed county clerk who has used social media to promote ba...

The press and change the outcomes of the election. these are previously stated goals. what attitudes and actions does this require of us. any action must begin with a sober recognition. catastrophe is in the front room. the weather forecast includes the apocalypse. former republican max boot seems to agree, but even more plainly, he will be voting in the next election with one goal in mind, to save our democracy. theres only one party who does not pose a threat to our democracy. to prevent a suc...

Existential threat to our democracy, and leading people there. >> i think it has a lot to do with the logic of our politics. i tweeted earlier today about kind of the consultant class. theres a sense in which at least from my vantage point, you guys know this better than i do, that the politics seem to suggest that we must not alienate those voters who are in between the insurrectionists and max boot, and others, right. those voters who are kind of in between, we cannot alienate them, and so the...