republican power. if you want power, you have to be on donald trump s good side. because donald trump has shown republicans that you can act in the most heinous of ways and as long as you weaponize certain issues. that appeal to the pitchfork and torturing part of your party, you can get elected. donald trump showed that there was no, there was no cost to be made for wearing racism on your sleeve or subverting democracy. for weaponizing issues around immigration. as long as you can appeal to voters emotions who had come back time and time again. you could do almost anything you want. and so there was a, about a five minute period after january 6th win a collection of leading republicans said this was wrong, we don t stand by this, something has to happen
and tanks and missiles and rockets involved at home. but the fundamental urges are the same. people yearn to be free. to love who they want, and live where they want, free of threat. the other lesson with which i leave is that in the face of growing atrocities against innocent civilians here, war crimes and went many in this country including its president are calling an attempted genocide, the world needs to do better. democracy, and freedom are imperiled worldwide. if it is tough for nato and the un to prevent one country from actually invading another, and subverting s population, imagine the struggle our world order has with those countries in which portions of the population are persecuted by their own governments. afghanistan, syria, china, myanmar, israel, india, to name just a few. there are many more. and we, meaning the media, have to do better at covering vulnerable populations all over the world. we have given ukraine and its 4 million refugees are full attention as
democracy, are not unrelated to the struggle for basic rights in this fledgling democracy of ukraine. they just aren t bombs and tanks and missiles and rockets involved at home. but the fundamental urges are the same. people yearn to be free. to love who they want, and live where they want, free of threat. the other lesson with which i leave is that in the face of growing atrocities against innocent civilians here, war crimes and went many in this country including its president are calling an attempted genocide, the world needs to do better. democracy, and freedom are imperiled worldwide. if it is tough for nato and the un to prevent one country from actually invading another, and subverting s population, imagine the struggle our world order has with those countries in which portions of the population are persecuted by their own governments. afghanistan, syria, china, myanmar, israel, india, to name just a few. there are many more. and we, meaning the media, have
and one of the members sitting on that body, yes, with veto power, is the one committing these atrocities. what security are they providing? again, on that front he s not wrong. the security council is there to address threats to peace and security. it s been that way since the end of world war ii. russia is subverting that just as it is subverting every other principle that has undergirded the peace, prosperity and security of the world war ii post era. you take a look at the system and you see that 140 countries in various votes have stood up to condemn russian aggression, to make clear they are standing on the side of ukraine, that they are standing against what vladamir putin is doing. when it comes down to effective and actual tangible action, is there really nothing the other members of the security council can do to russia? you have seen members of the
life and, under its authoritarian government. we ve mentioned him on the show several times, or barn has ruled hungry for over a decade, worries work to transform the country into what he calls an illiberal democracy. he is sharply cut democracy rewritten election laws, in his favor. he has transform hungry from a thriving democracy, to one bordering on, one party rule. he has been routinely criticized for undermining the rule of law. it should come as no surprise that he is something of a hero on the motion right, who harbored their own authoritarian dreams. in respect, he has been subverting liberal democracy, with a bigoted brand of conservatism, just listen to what s occurred to say about him. of the nearly 200 different countries on the face of the earth, precisely one of them, has an elected leader, who publicly identified the western