>> yeah. this is uniquely dangerous and american kind of danger because we have one party, you know, not that many countries you have such an entrenched bipartisan system. when one of those two parties turns away from democracy, that's a huge problem. but we also have the uniquely american situation of hundreds of millions of guns in private hands. military-grade weapons in private hands. you put those two together and you're in unchartered terrain and one of the concrete things, manifestations we already saw was january 6th. so we are really in some kind of situation that many other cultures weren't in because they had coalition governments and they didn't have so many civilians owning military-grade weapons. >> robert jones, ruth, thank you so much. that was great. for more on the republican