Luke Thomas

I mean, the Department of Justice has a giant banner of the president standing.

hanging from it right now, like some totalitarian farce.

The DOJ is just going after his critics and adversaries and chosen targets.

Taking us back to the Fulton County raid, and if folks go back and they look at what Tulsi Gabbard said about why she was there and that the White House asked her directly to go, just think about the fact that the President of the United States is personally managing the staffing of

politically sensitive law enforcement raids on polling places or election facilities in the United States while DOJ brazenly and blatantly goes after his political adversaries while they wield prosecutorial power to try to intimidate the Fed chair to cut rates.

This is banana republic stuff and it has to be opposed every step of the way.

It is, and I think we have to take...

The authoritarianism seriously as a threat to the constitutional order and our civil liberties and our civil rights.

We also have to step back and recognize that it's all grossly incompetent and they're clowns.

Right.

I mean, that the power grab is being very ham fistedly executed and they're hemorrhaging support across the country because what's the backdrop for all of this?

People suffering economically.

Just this year alone, new all-time record high prices for rent, for groceries, for the power bill, for a meal out at a restaurant.

And what the public sees is...

The president engaging in reckless and incompetent militarism around the world, talking obsessively about building a new ballroom and trying to prosecute his political adversaries.

And so it is extraordinarily dangerous and it's unacceptable.

It's also a big part of the reason that the national mood and the political momentum has so drastically shifted against this administration and toward the opposition.

I think this is strategic and geopolitical malpractice and it's been a debacle for the national security and economic interests of the United States.

Because first of all, not only is the regime in Tehran intact, it now appears to be dominated by hardline IRGC elements.

who may pose even more of a threat to our national interests, and who may be arguing internally against any kind of restriction on nuclear weapons development, particularly now that for them, this is like the lesson of Libya versus North Korea.