Part of what all leaders of his style try to do is normalize behavior that is fundamentally abnormal. remember when he was asked whether putin was a killer, he said everyone is a killer. it s the normalization of extreme behavior. and there s this attitude some people might hear this news and say other administrations have gone after political opponents with open-ended fishing expeditions through the department of justice. not like this. not to this extent. when he talked about journal. is being enemies of the people, deep onlizing democrats in congress doing their jobs to investigate him. he followed through with his administration through fear and people followed it. we need to strengthen our democracy fast. the spumings too many people made is that you would have people of character at the top. that s not always the case. well, we knew he wasn t a person of character when he ran.
Part of what all leaders of his style try to do, is normalize behavior that is fundamentally abnormal. remember when he when he was asked whether putin was a killer, and he said, no, everyone s a killer. it s the normalization of extreme behavior. and there s this attitude some people might hear this news and say, well, other administrations have gone after political opponents with open-ended fishing expeditions through the department of justice. not like this. not to this extent. when he talked about journalists being enemies of the people. when he talked about demonizing democrats in congress who were doing their jobs to investigate him, he followed through with his administration through fear. it means we need to strengthen the guardrails ever our democracy fast because the assumption is too many people
Officials in the last week or so, all of whom who disagree and say they believe this is an escalation of sort of his more erratic behavior or his more extreme behavior. and they attribute it to increasing stress in the job as he faces re-election. i don t think we can ignore the fact that literally every day for him now is tied up in were yg about whether he s going to get reelected next year. for all the question of whether he likes the job, we know he likes to win. i think we ve heard previously from former administration officials they ve been concerned about his behavior. with you leave, you suddenly become a lot more aware of things either you tuned out or it looks different from the outside and i m not sure which one to credit it with. so what is it that they