Heather Cox Richardson

They could have stopped him, but they wanted his votes. And now in this moment, one of the things that I find is really interesting is you can tell that the Republican Party is at civil war. Mitch McConnell has made that very clear. And Trump really doesn't have anything to offer the elected,

Republicans any longer that is he has not been effective in down ballot races he's 78 years old and clearly slipping last night in the middle of the night after a dinner with some people he wanted to impress he tweeted something to the effect of everybody likes me or something and you're like really you're the president-elect of the United States and you're like everybody is my friend isn't this just great and he has never been able to transfer his voters to somebody else so

Republicans any longer that is he has not been effective in down ballot races he's 78 years old and clearly slipping last night in the middle of the night after a dinner with some people he wanted to impress he tweeted something to the effect of everybody likes me or something and you're like really you're the president-elect of the United States and you're like everybody is my friend isn't this just great and he has never been able to transfer his voters to somebody else so

Republicans any longer that is he has not been effective in down ballot races he's 78 years old and clearly slipping last night in the middle of the night after a dinner with some people he wanted to impress he tweeted something to the effect of everybody likes me or something and you're like really you're the president-elect of the United States and you're like everybody is my friend isn't this just great and he has never been able to transfer his voters to somebody else so

So the question for me has been, when will the Republican lawmakers wake up and go, you know what, what are you doing for me now? Because you're not going to be able to deliver any more voters to me. So I'm going to have to jump and find a new base because the MAGA base is extraordinarily loyal to Trump, but to no one else.

So the question for me has been, when will the Republican lawmakers wake up and go, you know what, what are you doing for me now? Because you're not going to be able to deliver any more voters to me. So I'm going to have to jump and find a new base because the MAGA base is extraordinarily loyal to Trump, but to no one else.

So the question for me has been, when will the Republican lawmakers wake up and go, you know what, what are you doing for me now? Because you're not going to be able to deliver any more voters to me. So I'm going to have to jump and find a new base because the MAGA base is extraordinarily loyal to Trump, but to no one else.

But what's been added to that now, which I did not see coming, is Musk with this extraordinary war chest saying, anybody who doesn't do what I want, I'm going to throw out of government, which is essentially what he's saying. And if that's not the definition of an authoritarian slash king, I don't know what is. And, you know, whether or not the Republican lawmakers will finally find some...

But what's been added to that now, which I did not see coming, is Musk with this extraordinary war chest saying, anybody who doesn't do what I want, I'm going to throw out of government, which is essentially what he's saying. And if that's not the definition of an authoritarian slash king, I don't know what is. And, you know, whether or not the Republican lawmakers will finally find some...

But what's been added to that now, which I did not see coming, is Musk with this extraordinary war chest saying, anybody who doesn't do what I want, I'm going to throw out of government, which is essentially what he's saying. And if that's not the definition of an authoritarian slash king, I don't know what is. And, you know, whether or not the Republican lawmakers will finally find some...

backbone at least to say well maybe it's not important for me to be a representative so or a senator so much as it is for me to get rid of this really unstable fellow who is apparently going to become the the emperor of the universe yeah the richest man in the world and the largest government contractor live tweeting fake things on ketamine being in charge of the of the country does seems like it might have some problems nuclear weapons baby

backbone at least to say well maybe it's not important for me to be a representative so or a senator so much as it is for me to get rid of this really unstable fellow who is apparently going to become the the emperor of the universe yeah the richest man in the world and the largest government contractor live tweeting fake things on ketamine being in charge of the of the country does seems like it might have some problems nuclear weapons baby

backbone at least to say well maybe it's not important for me to be a representative so or a senator so much as it is for me to get rid of this really unstable fellow who is apparently going to become the the emperor of the universe yeah the richest man in the world and the largest government contractor live tweeting fake things on ketamine being in charge of the of the country does seems like it might have some problems nuclear weapons baby

Can you believe we're talking about William McKinley? I mean, I just listen. I love the late 19th century for a number of reasons. But if there were like one president that you didn't want to know more about. I mean, maybe it's Benjamin Harrison or Martin Van Buren, I'll give you as well. But William McKinley? Like, really? We're going to lionize William McKinley?

Can you believe we're talking about William McKinley? I mean, I just listen. I love the late 19th century for a number of reasons. But if there were like one president that you didn't want to know more about. I mean, maybe it's Benjamin Harrison or Martin Van Buren, I'll give you as well. But William McKinley? Like, really? We're going to lionize William McKinley?

Can you believe we're talking about William McKinley? I mean, I just listen. I love the late 19th century for a number of reasons. But if there were like one president that you didn't want to know more about. I mean, maybe it's Benjamin Harrison or Martin Van Buren, I'll give you as well. But William McKinley? Like, really? We're going to lionize William McKinley?

So the reason that this matters, William McKinley is a really interesting character because of what he represents. And that is when Trump talks about William McKinley, and obviously somebody told him that William McKinley had these incredibly high tariffs, which he did. But one of the things that I think people maybe misunderstood is that wasn't just about the tariffs.

So the reason that this matters, William McKinley is a really interesting character because of what he represents. And that is when Trump talks about William McKinley, and obviously somebody told him that William McKinley had these incredibly high tariffs, which he did. But one of the things that I think people maybe misunderstood is that wasn't just about the tariffs.

So the reason that this matters, William McKinley is a really interesting character because of what he represents. And that is when Trump talks about William McKinley, and obviously somebody told him that William McKinley had these incredibly high tariffs, which he did. But one of the things that I think people maybe misunderstood is that wasn't just about the tariffs.

What William McKinley really stood for was an economic system in which a very few people got extraordinarily wealthy and everybody else served them. So think, for example, of what we now know as the Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie. And in that was originally known as wealth.