voters want republicans to win congress in the midterms than want democrats. but in the future, it s not going to matter that much what the voters want because of gerrymandering. if republicans take power, what will they do with it? elise jordan, i m curious what your thought is. so much of what we talk about, whether it is jury instructions in witness, whether it is open carry laws, where an underage kid is carrying around an ar-15 in the middle of a riot and that s not a crime in and of itself, it has a lot to do with the laws passed by the legislature. we talk about gerrymandering. all of this doesn t just magically happen, right? pixie dust from right-wing gods, it is not sprinkled from the
skies. this happens because, at some point, democrats forgot how to win elections in state legislatures in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania. i hate gerrymandering. i wish we could do away with gerrymandering. i wish there were a national some national compact that would allow us to do away with gerrymandering. even gerrymandering doesn t just happen. gerrymandering occurs, and those lines are cut up in a way that don t help democrats in a lot of states, because democrats don t win elections there in the first place. we all say the same thing on tv. i hear it all day. i feel it. it s not like i m coldhearted. i m very worried about all this too. but at some point, damn it, figure out how to win local
there was probable cause to believe there was a crime. if it is burglary, folks say, wait, he was just on the property. there was no felony committed. burglary doesn t require a completed felony. burglary just requires the entering of the dwelling with the intent to commit a felony therein. it is not about what he actually did. it s about what the defendants reasonably perceived. if they didn t reasonably perceive that, they didn t reasonably have probable cause, and the citizens arrest claim will fail. i want to make one point here. danny is making the right legal points. the defense essentially is that white people were afraid. i say that because there s also evidence in the record that there were folks who were white who did the exact same thing ahmaud arbery did. yet, there was no let s hop in our car, let s get him, let s trap him like a rat, which is one of the statements made, i
going to start living your life again. and i often thought of that because american liberals didn t do that. they did fight. they had this one end point in mind, this date, november 3rd when this nightmare could be brought to an end, and they really threw all their energy into making that happen. the problem now, there is no date, there is no end point. i wrote, this doesn t have an expiration date anymore. so staying motivated in that kind of an environment is much more difficult. again, i think you re seeing some of this falloff is natural. you see a decline in activism on the left when democrats are in power. but i do you know, there s some data to support it, but anecdotally, you hear people say, you know, it is too painful to watch this. michelle goldberg, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. thank you. mika, it is so important, as we talk about it, if you re a