Heather Cox Richardson

And I thought, this is probably a reflection of the fact that so many of the decision makers are white men who have never had to negotiate around this kind of a predator before.

I will answer that, but I feel like you haven't answered anything yet.

And we're almost at the end here.

What do you see?

Yeah, I mean, I'm with you.

This is the one place that I was surprised.

I thought that the Senate Republicans would defend the prerogatives of the Senate when Trump took his second term, including Mitch McConnell, who made noises that way early on.

But here's the piece that I think is worth, and by the way, I am very concerned.

I mean, off the charts concerned.

you know, people always say I'm calm and cool and I promise you it's going to be okay.

And I won't promise it's going to be okay.

Yeah, you don't do that.

Yeah, but you are calm.

But I will say that Trump is weak.

The Republican Party is falling apart.

And to go back to the piece that you picked up on that I said before that I think really matters, and my pattern for this, by the way, is not yesterday.

It's the 1930s, the 1890s, and the

1850s slash 1860s, and that is that as the Republican Party falls apart, and in these other eras it was different parties, but as that party falls apart, true Republican believers who believe in the ideology, the real ideology of the Republican Party, those people that became known as Republicans in name only in the 1990s and so on, who really are center-right, have the opportunity to

to work with the independents and the Democrats to get rid of the part of the party that is currently becoming a Nazi party, to carve them out and to reshape a new Republican party that is what it should be, which is center-right, which would enable the Democrats to slide to center-left, where they are not right now.

They are basically to the right of Eisenhower.