judges keep saying, no, no, no, or is it good because judges keep saying no? or is it bad they keep coming back? they keep coming back. kari lake, donald trump, when will they ever go away and realize they lost and probably broke the law? it s a good thing judges are saying no. it is a bad thing, though, that they keep coming back. it erodes the trust in the democratic process. part of what joe, and we ve been talking about, is americans have been awash in lies. those lies have, in some ways, affected our ability to engage in reasoned deliberation, to do the work that madisonian democracy requires. with donald trump tweeting the special grand jury s report is a clear exoneration of him, that s just fat elvis running the bill barr move with regards to
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could and should be able to celebrate that loves this country, that loves the u.s. institution. that loves american democracy. that all the election deniers, all the people that wanted to say we won t recognize election outcomes unless our side wins, they all lost. 2022, i mean, you have to fight for democracy and freedom every day. in whatever way you can. but 2022, gave us a couple more years where at least the basics of madisonian democracy remain in tact. absolutely. totally. and happy new year, mika and joe and everyone else. let s celebrate today. we have had ample reason over the last seven years to say these are dangerous for democracy. but this morning i think we can say that the election of 2022 proved, as i always love to say,
she sent these texts. if you read the transcript, she regrets that they were printed. that s correct. that s all she regrets. and this victim hood, again, i think it fits perfectly into the twisted logic of trumpism, that the most powerful people in america, the richest billionaires in america, the people that have run america for 400 years, they re the ones who are victimized, the rich are victimized, asked to pay average rates. the powerful are victimized by woke college professors and in her case, the powerful are victimized when they were asked to respond to texts that show that she is trying to overthrow madisonian democracy and the white majority that has run the united states for 400 years is victimized, well, by everyone, especially when they don t win
democracy, they got sent to jail. they re still getting sent to jail. people that wanted to deny democracy, madisonian democracy, got defeated at the ballot box. vladimir putin thought, as he thought for years, he would roll into kyiv and take over for three to six days. that has changed. i must say, as remarkable as the ukrainian spirit has been, they have taught the world so much about fighting for freedom, i agree with david ignatius, as we look forward to 2023, a spark has been reignited in europe that has been dead for a long time. and that spark is about a love and a quest for democracy and the understanding that they re actually going to have to pay for it to get it. that day going to have to build up their defenses. they re going to have to take part in this fight against