democracy. that s a deeply cynical strategy if that is the strategy of the gop. but it seems to be the weird sigh ops as democrats. they looked at everything democrats did, whether it s investigating interference, national security on january 6th and flip on it its head now we re in this strange universe where republicans are spending time in congress gaslighting democrats. there have to be freshmen, swing people inside the republican caucus who are looking at this saying this is insane. is there any conversation happening between democrats and the republicans who see what s going on and saying this is how we lose power? so yes, and that s something that gives me optimism and gives me hope. as we were going through the process of the 15 votes that lead to speaker mccarthy there were republicans walking over to the democrats side, walking to