membrane between peace and lawlessness is a lot thinner than people think. when you have someone with donald trump's power, it's like a cult of personality for maga world, saying what he's saying, doing what he's doing, we're edging close to it. i understand by the way the impulse to try to get trump in the rearview mirror, i have that same impulse, a lot of us do, worn down by the trump presidency. but we can't do it. because this person is not just a former president but dominant figure in the republican party. he is setting the tone and style and approach of the republican party. he may be the nominee in 2024, and we may want -- wish he would go away but he isn't going to exit the stage. if that's the case, rest of us have a civic duty and obligation to call this out, name it, stand up against it. and to fight for a country that