David Pakman

Once again, we've been warning them, they ignored it, and now the problems are here.

Democratic norms.

We said when Trump refused to accept the 2020 election, when January 6th happened, when he discussed using justice against his political opponents, by that I mean the Department of Justice, we said this erodes democracy.

And there were some people who said, oh, you guys are always screaming about something.

You're overreacting.

And now we have a president talking openly about prosecuting enemies.

actually doing it with certain people, John Bolton and others, treating the rule of law as optional and using the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi to be his personal bully to get pack at people he thinks have wronged him.

We warned them and they ignored it.

And then we get to political violence.

When rhetoric becomes about enemies within,

and retribution, the way it's been increasingly under Trump for a decade, it creates a dangerous situation in the real world.

And now political violence is a major issue.

Threats against election workers are a new thing we've seen over the last couple of cycles.

Every election feels existential rather than a policy debate because the stakes have gotten so high.

And overwhelmingly, the political violence comes from the right.

We warned them and they ignored it.

Now, here is the worst, maybe the worst part of all of this.

They're still ignoring it.

There are some MAGAs questioning.

We've talked about it.