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Sort of baked-in, conventional wisdom that their political fate is sealed and it's all good, but if they thought that, they wouldn't be hiring lawyers to deal with the 1/6 committee. they wouldn't be expelling liz cheney and adam kinzinger from the party, which isn't a thing. nobody really wants to be there anyway. it's so stupid that i'm embarrassed to be covering it but it is another window into the depravity of one of the two political parties in america. >> this is just such a part of any autocratic movement, like, tulips at easter, like the salmon swimming upstream to die before -- to spa...

Staffer, former republican consultant saying that. but it doesn't seem as though the war that so many of these republicans are waging against facts and reality and democracy is hurting their chances at all when it comes to winning the house and maybe the senate back in 2022. does that say something about the weakness of the democrats? >> i think it says something about our failure to communicate the policies and successes that democrats have actually had. but i think what we're talking about is the fact that whatever margin i believe that is very possible that republicans do the gerrymandering...

Rights that has -- that began the day after roe v. wade and has been a political motivator for so many republicans and the idea that there would be also this purity test, this litmus test, is what led us to the kavanaughs and the barretts of the world so we had this feeling of suddenly this incremental approach has given way to the mask slipping and the justices are hardly even pretending that their goal is anything but to undermine abortion rights and make it illegal in at least half of the states as a starting point. and it may not end there. >> yeah, it's a starting point. i mean, i think t...

Because he's able to get non-republicans, democrats and independents to vote for him. he wown't win in a state like maryland if he didn't have that. donald trump appealed maryland as you know because he's lost pretty significantly in the past. we're going to see this. i think it's fair too say trump's endorsements is not based on who he believes is best to win in those district because he didn't really care about that. it's mostly about exacting political revenge on his enemies, and we see that across the country, right? he's going against some republicans who voted for his impeachment. althou...

I wish we were making this up, this is not "the onion." it says they are going to ban big bert, bert, and ernie because they endorsed vaccinations. when i went to cpac, it didn't go well either, and i'm not a "sesame street character, despite what some people might think." >> banning big bird, this is what excites voters that you have to be -- have such purity test that you use it for puppets, um, is just -- it's just taking it to a new level. and, unfortunately, it's a very serious issue. so it can seem funny except for the fact that people die because they listen to this kind of stuff that p...