nation, as narendra modi, the prime minister, told congress in a joint session yesterday, since the last time he addressed them in 2016, india s economy has gone from the tenth largest in the world to the fifth largest in the world. you can see why, of course, an american president would want to court india for that reason alone. you also have, of course, the context of the iraq sorry the ukraine war, sorry, in which the global south, in which india is a leader and is sitting on the sidelines. joe biden and the american establishment would like to get india to be more on the side of ukraine against russia, so you see them flattering and showering modi there with page pageantry and pomp. at home, india is troubled with great complaints about crackdown on dissent. modi s main oppositional leaders have been thrown out of parliament, sentenced to two years in prison for defaming the
people something that people may not want to hear. keep their head down and continue telling them that. they ll be surprised if they do that, what happens, but they never take that chance because they re such cowards. but it s democracy versus anti-democracy. i have to say, jonathan lemire, i ve also been surprised at some of the people who i would have thought would have gone along with the crowd, who have stood up and been stalwarts, even though they re conservatives. standing for democracy and standing against their old party. because as jon meacham said, we really don t give a damn about what your tax policy is and what judges you re going to appoint if you don t support our constitutional republic. yeah, there have been some republicans who have stood up to donald trump. certainly, we ve noted on this show, a lot of the judiciary held against donald trump s efforts in 2020 to overturn that election. we are seeing now the process
authoritarian forces, these fascist forces, to find expression and to emerge. you see the result, and the rest of the party is just going along with it. it is amazing, and there has to be a reckoning, an electoral reckoning, a reckoning at the ballot box, a rejection of where donald trump has taken one of our two great political parties. because, you know, i can t say it s never been this bad. we did have a civil war. not to get on meacham s turf, but the 1876 election was really bad. but this is that level crisis, i believe. you want to talk about crises, i ve been at dinner parties with jon meacham where he would talk an entire night
really bother me. you know what? i m going to concede. i wish my opponent the best of luck. i love arizona that much. i m here to help her any way i can. she steps off the stage, and at that moment, she begins running for the united states senate, a race that s coming up this year. and she would have been man, she would have been the favorite, far and away the favorite. but she had to get right with the mccain people she insulted and the other people. anybody who is listening, this is a game of addition. it s not a game of subtraction. that worked for donald trump on one fall day in 2016. it s never going to work again. one fall day. stop emulating him. why don t you emulate somebody
one year later and the role she has played in advocating for health care access and abortion access over decades, as well as donald trump. her deep concerns as a former member of the intelligence committee, a former ranking member, about those specifics of those documents and what donald trump did in putting our national security at risk. so a very wide ranging interview. we re going to use a lot of it on the show on sunday. i love it. can t wait. noon eastern, jen psaki s show. gene robinson, what are you looking at today and as we head spot weekend? well, today, first thing i m going to do is see what the supreme court has in store for us. of course, that big decision on affirmative action is still hanging out there. you know, are they going to release it on a friday? we ll see. i think, you know, we all anticipate which direction that will go. i think it would be really bad.