as senator corker said, when you go on the campaign trail, people don't want to talk about issues. they want to know are you with trump or are you against trump. the second, it's -- in terms of ideology, it is similar to the french national front in the sense that it is basically a party of ethnic grievance organized around ideals, sort of cultural ideas, who is and isn't a proper american. what isn't not the right way to express your americanness. it is unprecedented because we don't really do that in in esam. >> that explains trump and trumpism. but what happens to any memory of men like paul ryan or mitch mcconnell, like what they used to stand for, line 18 months ago? >> well, turns out president trump is very popular with base voters so it's difficult to sort of stand up to him if you want to win a primary. one of the things he revealed during the campaign is that the economic conservative arguments