Heather Cox Richardson
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These things worked at the time.
But crucial to it is going to have to be the voices and the support of the American people.
We do not want a dictator, even one who comes in and says, hey, I'm going to do everything right.
We need to have somebody who is actually reflecting the real will of the people expressed through free and fair elections, getting rid of the partisan gerrymandering, the money in elections and so on.
So, yeah, I think it's time for a bold vision and I think crucially as well.
to go back to what we were saying before, we are creating that.
We are telling politicians who want to be elected that this is what we want.
And that's how we will create somebody who can rise to meet the moment.
We're going to make you a historian, John.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
And, you know, all we're trying to do is make sure we're standing on solid ground.
And that's all I do.
I help to show people where the ground is.
Always a pleasure.
Well, remember Pokemon to the Poles?
I don't know who created Pokemon Go.
But I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokemon go to the Poles.
I think what we are seeing is a real attempt to institute the kind of Putinization of the United States of America, if you will, in that what Trump did in Venezuela was not to overturn a government in order to install a democratically elected leader or an opposition leader.
What we saw was him extracting a leader, almost as a threat to those remaining behind, to say, give me a cut.
or I'm going to do something even worse.