Ezra Klein

And so there is, what is happening with the president at one level very high up is also happening down a lot lower.

And this is not a movement that is going to

effectively come up with like normal solutions for political problems.

So you have always a danger that it moves into straight repression, right?

That he uses the military and other things to try to win elections that he cannot win through votes.

But right now, it seems to me there is a genuine possibility.

It's not huge, but that Republicans will lose the Senate and

because Donald Trump will not endorse John Cornyn in Texas.

And if he has not endorsed John Cornyn in Texas, and Cornyn, one of the reasons Trump seems to not like him, is Cornyn did not buy in to the 2020 lies.

But if he doesn't endorse Cornyn, which he hasn't, and voting is sort of beginning,

Ken Paxton, who's a much weaker nominee, absolutely scandal-plagued in every direction.

Might become the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas.

And Texas is, you know, a red state, and Paxton might win anyway.

But if Democrats nominate Tallarico, it seems to me like they're a stronger candidate in that race, but who knows?

You could end up in a situation where I don't think Crockett or Tallarico could beat Cornyn.

But I think Paxton is beatable.

And in a situation where you have a Democratic wave here...

and a very, very scandal-plagued Republican Senate candidate that could end up being the decisive Senate race.

And then people will look back and it will have been Trump.

Like, Trump could have interceded to protect himself and just chose not to.