Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20210524:11:08:00
Principles, it's painful to acknowledge that the party of lincoln helped -- that the party lincoln helped build now embodies the very dangers that lincoln warned about. but how did that happen, pete? i guess the first question is. >> well, it's a long and complicated story, mika. but i think what happened is the republican party became grifted by grievances, victimization mentality, and then conspiracy theories. it moved away from a philosophy, as joe, was alluding to, where any interest in ideas became performtive. these trends started before trump. trump became president and he accelerated a...