guess, troubling, if you look at it here. one is that the incentive structures for people to participate in our national political process are skewed. we reward people who are the most outlandish, the most cultish. who say the most provocative things, we reward them with campaign donations, endorsements and the like whereas someone who takes a tough vote on principle gets basically driven out of office. the second thing is there's not much balance. all the voices of skepticism, of trumpism have essentially left. what we saw in the last cycle as bob corker and jeff flake leave the senate because they calculated they could not survive there either. what does that mean for the republican party? it means it becomes much more homogeneous, it becomes much more trumpy. there aren't going to be voices of dissent the next time around when you have big issues and potentially trump running again,