this democracy from those who have been its privileged inheriters. it s interesting, you mentioned the founders and tom, you know, little maddie tweeted the founding fathers would never recognize this country. they wouldn t. me and michael would have been slaves. they wouldn t have been on television. they wouldn t have been able to imagine television. one of the ways they wouldn t recognize this country is it originally wasn t envisioned as multi racial democracy. we put forward the very unique idea for democracy, a solid idea for democracy and apply it to something they didn t intend, which is multi racial democracy and we re struggling because we don t really have a blueprint for how to do that and tom, what i worry about is one of the things that s the biggest impediment to us doing it is number one this narcissim that
somehow we ve gotten into. you write about this a lot and talk about this a lot and we tweet about this a lot. the sense of i have to win and have my way or it s not fair and also this kind of almost religion of conspiracy. when you mix those, i m not sure we can have a multi racial democracy with those things in place. what do you think? there is a lot going on there. one of them is this culture after narcissim has filled this yawning gaping hole where spiritty has become a search for meaning. life is supposed to be interesting and heroic and fun and noble and the idea that previous generations took pleasure, a civic pride, a pleasure in civic virtue by serving others and being stoic and not constantly talking about your sense of grievance and your sense of anger and outrage, that
mark meadows was not on board with donald trump. when / when they saw political ties were changing and he was going to be president, they were suddenly being a very pro donald trump person. that s not just mark meadows. it was a lot of the house freedom caucus reluctant to support him. now they will basically support whatever donald trump is pushing for. there was a large change in the party. it goes to show that the politics, people will morph and transform and do who what they think is possible to survive politically in many cases. yeah with no ethic am boundary. which is the thing that s striking to me and no, i mean, as someone with a high degree of moral narcissim and no concern for their fellow integrity, which is the thing i think people should concerned about. that s just me editorializing. as always, a pleasure, thank you. thank you. still ahead, the damming official report on what we all