in 2016. we don't know what that looks like or what it's going to be. of course after 22 months of a whole lot of people in this country, late night cable hosts or comedies, the hosts, basically saying this is christmas what was coming up here, right? we were thinking that robert de niro was going to deliver something. as if the president of the united states being a puppet of the kremlin is something worth celebrating so there's a lot of management of expectations here that are being managed down. i think that puts responsibility where it belongs which is not on some exogenous sweet meteor of death telling us what the future of what the trump presidency is going to be. it will be on us as citizens to decide what is the appropriate political punishment for a president who's lied about a lot of stuff. important stuff. but also on a political class that created the conditions under which donald trump might be popular. >> i'm curious to get your thoughts from the democratic perspective. is there a risk they overplay their hand as they go forward,