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Cannot be allowed to happen is weakening. and that is genuinely dangerous. because at the same time we are getting used to crises, we are getting blase about them. and the republican party is getting used to causing crises, and decides they prefer them to compromise, and its shrinking base prefers it to compromise. so now, we're experimenting. once crises become okay, how long until a political party that can't compromise actually cause a catastrophe? jared bernstein, good to see you. >> thank you, nice to be here. >> so what made this different? tonight, my friday night would be ruined becaus...

Protect their constituentcyies and the people they care about. nobody wants this to go over the fiscal cliff, because it's just going to look very bad. maybe each individual member of congress got re-elected, but in the aggregate, the american people are not going to tolerate this. i mean, they want a deal and they want the upper class to pay a little more. >> david, go ahead. >> tamron i want to say there is a small but very vocal group on the left and right that i believe is perfectly willing to go over the fiscal cliff for different reasons, and that cannot be ignored. if that were to happe...

The polls, the democrats do. the assumption is that the republicans will always turn out. the democrats have a much broader base that people see as their voters, so -- >> like the entire country which is, you know, like actually the formation of the america as it is today as opposed to 1943. >> that's right. >> and that's exactly the problem i think -- we've talked about this, martin, several times over the last couple years. that's the problem -- >> shrinking republican base. >> exactly. they're catering to a shrinking base and the republican party after this election is going to have to ask ...

To the people that will come out and vote for republicans you have to up the crazy level a little bit. you've seen that not just from mcdonnell, but cucinelli speaking at a pro-gun march, repeal benefits or protections universities have in place for gay and lesbians, this confederate history month mcdonnell has instituted appealing to that shrinking base. >> it is also striking. this one incident in washington state, the threat against patty murray, the fbi used an anti-health reform group to catch this guy. strategically and in a law enforcement sense does that make sense? does that have diff...

Party is so sort of shrunk down to its root in order to appeal to the people that will come out and vote for republicans you have to up the crazy level a little bit. you've seen that not just from mcdonnell, but cuccinelli as well, not only speaking at a pro-gun march, but in trying to re repeal benefits or protections universities have in place for gay and lesbians, this confederate history month mcdonnell has instituted appealing to that shrinking base. >> it is also striking. this one incident in washington state, the threat against patty murray, the fbi used an name of an actual anti-healt...