philosophical issue as a democracy, as much as it is a theoretical issue, as much as it may become a source of litigation, legal fights if the justice department takes this up the way that attorney general garland promised today. it is real life, right now. for people whose life work is ending. for people who spent their lives working on the nonpartisan, technocratic of good elections in this country. people who are being run out of this type of work on a one by one basis. even people working at a low level, or at the county level being picked off one by one by a violent mob, attacking them, threatening them, and in the case of tommy gong showering them with racist abuse. this is not a hypothetical thing, this is not a potential danger to our elections in the future, this is happening right now. person by person. all across the country.