solution. this is the cost of telling thousands of people that there is a legitimate shot of overturning the election. in the year since the attack on the capital, the vast majority of republicans have refused to condemn the former president or the actions that led to the uprising. the new york times with this headline tonight trump s hold on the gop is unrivaled. quote, his rehabilitation, to the extent one was even needed among republicans, is the latest example of an enduring lesson of his tumultuous time in politics. that mr. trump can outlast almost any outrage cycle, no matter how intensely it burns. the spotlight shifts. the furor fades. then, he writes history, end quote. with us tonight, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and bill kristol, author, writer, thinker and politico, veteran of the reagan and bush administrations and the editor at large at the bulwark and you are also involved with the
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exhausted with defending this president, day in and day out, and it means defending t ining indefensible. and we saw them step out in the case of syria, mitch mcconnell has an op-ed in the washington post, condemning what donald trump did there. i think we re starting to see republicans move away from this president. and olivia, you wrote about that this week, the exhaustion. i think the way that the media or liberals have trump fatigue, that exists on the right, as well. it s just different. because they re not outraged. they re not trying to get rid of him. they re not trying to actively do anything to change the situation, but they also feel a kind of fatigue. they feel sick of what he s doing. they can t be shocked by anything anymore, because i think they ve lost look at marco rubio. marco rubio s body language is utterly defeated. but i don t think it s fair to say that it s, you know, we get distracted by the outrage cycle and that that s not quite important. i thi
actually, there are ways of chronicling is there a change in our condition. i think partially it does speak to the fact that the outrage cycle demands ever and ever greater levels of outrage. it also suggests the president himself has been angrier in the course of august, that he is feeling defensive and boxed in. and again, if you just look at the tweets and put them all together, you might have a sense that he insults people. but when you see this scale and nature of it coming directly from the overall office and the president of the united states, there is something different going on here. and it seems that if he was feeling constrained in the past from not going full bore against his enemies real and perceived, he now feels much less constrained to attack them. susan glasser, we recommend everybody read your piece in the