reluctant to do what ought to be the easiest thing in american politics, to say nazis are bad. anti-semites are bad. racism is bad. and we condemn them unreservedly, and no, you should not be having dinner with some of the most vile specimens of the racist right. the fact they won t do that shows how reluctant they are to confront the real fundamental problem that the republican party has right now. and you know, maury, i m going to come back to you. look, hugo lowell has that exact reporting, that trump didn t want to say anything because he doesn t want to anger the base. but some of them also believe it, let s be clear. there s reporting ron desantis actually was trying to teach civil war history when he was in georgia from the south s point of view. part is they are the base. the tea party is now the base, and he s one of them, and these tea party people are now the fundamentals of the party. it s not as if trump is some sort of outlier.