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Transcripts for MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 20210813 00:12:00

Palin era, all the way back to newt gingrich in the 1994 republican revolution. and you were part of a lot of that, were you not? you must recognize that. you can t just put this all on trump, right? the republican base have been crazy for long time. i have written two books clocking about the role people like me played in weaponizing the grievances and insecurities and culture differences that motivated the republican base and turned them into something that could be pushed out there, based on something that wasn t about the supposed idealogical predicates of the gop but about anger. but about rage. and trump took it to a vastly higher level. trump was more overt about his authoritarian leanings. he was more overt about the drivers that pushed him were not about idealogical choices. he wasn t about small government, constitutional fealty or balanced budgets or anything we pretended to be for. he was about personal power and ....

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