he ran around afterwards, saying it was rigged. so just take a second to imagine what it would look like, if nikki haley, or someone else actually were to start beating donald trump for the nomination this year. if we started seeing some surprises. that has happened before in american politics. it's almost impossible not to imagine a situation in which you end up with a scene that looks like january 6th outside the republican national convention. right? if trump starts losing, what is going to happen? play that out. they all have. they understand what they are dealing with. under those conditions, those are the conditions under which we are having this context, this election for the republican nominee. whatever happens on monday in iowa, later new hampshire, on super tuesday, you can't separate trump's performance from these ever-present, deeply ominous, anti-democratic response of --