the paul ryans are gone, some of these others are leaving. the flee our producers, they re leaving. the old-school republicans are leaving. now the tea party is like the base level. the qanons are the new people. and they get even wilder and weirder. ben, you ve dope a lot of reporting on this. because it has eaten up the party, to the point it s not controllable by the mitch mcconnells. they have to go along with it because they can t fight it. you have a story out right now, the fomenting of this trucker brigade, it s being done through the usual means, facebook, social media, but in a interesting way that sort of co-ops existing facebook groups. can you talk a little bit about that? yeah. so there are some foreign elements here. in romania and in vietnam and in bangladesh, there are these content mills that are taking over these groups. they re taking previous pro-trump groups, just like generalized groups, that have 50 to 60,000 followers, renaming them trucker convoy groups, and
of what is useful to you as a candidate. so at a certain point, the republican center can t hold. there is no center. the center is the far-right. and i wonder what that means long-term for even the united states senate, which seems like it could very well turn into the house, just smaller and weirder. the republican party has become something almost unrecognizable, it was tough then, but it just got worse and worse and worse and worse. and yeah, this party, all he has to do is see what the rnc did, by calling legitimate political discourse, you know, gouging cops eyes out and breaking their vertebrae. and this is who they are, and they re just awful don t get me
i won t use the example of toilets, because it s sort of gross, right? but let s use it any way. so no water comes out. so people are flushing it seven, eight, 10, 12 times. tend result is it s no good. ten times, right? ten times. not me, of course not me. dishwashers, sinks, toilets, lightbulbs. but sinks, toilets, and showers, you don t get any water. you turn on the faucet, you don t get any water. people are flushing toilets 10, 15 times as opposed to once. they end up uses more water. as so often happened in the trump years, criminal intent has joined to comically inept execution. joining me now, maya wiley, and former rnc chair michael steele. this is getting weirder and weirder. it is illegal to secret document
better working together than not. stevens and inouye, would go and campaign in stevens from alaska and inouye from hawaii would campaign for each other. yeah. it s a weird time for partisan politics. i dare say it s a little weirder for republicans. the rnc on friday censured cheney and kinzinger because they re participating in the investigation into january 6th. in fact, they accused kinzinger and cheney of engaging in the persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. you tweeted yesterday that description is just plain wrong, we can t allow a false narrative to be created. it must be uncomfortable to be a non-rigidly partisan person during this period. during this period, yes. but it can be uncomfortable
but also, look beyond the normal ebb and flow of electoral politics, because it is important, this weird humming that we ve got in the background of our otherwise normal ebb and flow of electoral politics. i mean, the stuff going on in the background on the right is getting worse and weirder, not better. huffington post was first to report today that of the republicans who stood for office yesterday around the country, at least eight of the republicans who won, who actually got elected last night, were people who participated in the events of january 6th in washington in which a mob of trump supporters violently attacked the u.s. capitol to try to stop the election results from being certified. two january 6th attendees were elected yesterday as republicans to the virginia house of delegates, the virginia state legislature. other january 6th people got elected as republicans in