tonight, i want you to picture this scene as i take you to a post midterm future. it's january the 5th of 2025. by now, you know what that means. it's the date legally mandated by the electoral vote act and codify'd by c u.s. e15 for congress to be in session to count the -- for president of the united states. as a matter of course in his country, a rubberstamp, essentially, what basketball players would call a layup. golfers would call it a gimme. -- no big deal. on january the 6th 2025, 119 congress meeting, for years on from a violent insurrection. you want to imagine that republicans now control both the house and senate, having taken control of both chambers in the red wave of november 2022 and having easily kept hold of them in november 2024. it is not too difficult to