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Be president or leader of the republican party, it really can't beat trump side for practical and more reasons. although, more practically, honestly. practically, you just can't out trump trump. no one can be more sociopathic than him. that's his comparative advantage. just yesterday, the associate press reported that at one point on january 6th, trump was confused by staffers were excited as he was watching the unrest unfold. so he's sitting there, wondering, why isn't everyone else psyched about the violent riot i incited? guys, this is -- look! you can't fake that kind of thing. okay? so th...

Everyone on the popular front to understand that they are part of it and that not letting donald trump get anywhere near the levers of powers as an essential part of the project in restoring american democracy. again, this is simple straightforward stuff, but i think that some people would like to not understand it. that means it would be good, for instance, for the country, for trump to be defeated in the republican primary, or someone who's on the side of american democracy, at least at the most elemental 11. even if this person has truly, truly, truly, truly genuinely horrible politics. bec...

Citizens they would be looking at these policies and saying wait a second, this doesn't make any sense, what you mean you're going to keep giving us money that's going to be enough? how does welfare work if your d incentivizing to marry their loved ones, can marry the hollow mike why are they incentivizing families to break down? and educated person would look at these policies and understand that everything that they are trying to do is to garner more power for themselves, to create more -- to grow the government to the size that we see it today. another department to take care of you, to be ...

There is a clear and easy exit for russia. perhaps this time there is. but perhaps in this game of brinkmanship, i think, it only ends one way, namely with escalation. >> this is precisely my worry, why i find the dynamics are somewhat recognizable to hawks in the u.s. -- the domestic local context -- who i think are almost always wrong. but you will sometimes see them make the argument that for credibility's sake we have to do that. we threatened missiles and now we have to fire missiles, as if you could just not, right? and these things take on military intervention. military intervention ta...

Adequate enough. mcconnell, on his own record, is saying that he would rip support donald trump if he ran for president 2024. basically, the position is, look, all support donny soprano. it is kind of a bad guy. we [inaudible] you have two -- republicans for years said you cannot negotiate with evil. that was true. and that's what they're doing. they are negotiating with evil. you have to pick a side. we are right, they're wrong. are you for democracy or against democracy? >> mona, your thought? >> i mean, the part where i constantly feel as if i'm in a twilight zone episode is that trump's so...