by presuming the existence of two political parties who resemble each other but different ideologies. what happens when you have two parties that increasingly don't very manible each other and one of them is going off in a anti-democratic direction? i think a lot of the routines and assumptions of political journalism just collapse at that point when you have two rakiticly different parties and that to me is probably the biggest conceptual as well as practical problem in political journalism today. >> let's not beat around the bush. you're talking about republican extremism, former president's lies, potential of him running for office again, that's really at the heart of the matter. we've got to call it what it is. >> yes. and the erasure of common sense by figures like trump and others and so much of good journalism is based on the assumption that a world of common fact exists, where at this present moment, we