democrats culturally tend to be former student council presidents who just happen to be involved in a gun fight with killers every day? >> we've had some hard-core democratic leaders in this country's history who haven't lacked for toughness in the moment. in the aftermath of the second world war when he was writing his memoirs, churchill described it as the unnecessary war. and when he talked about the rise of fascism in retrospect, he said the malice of the wicked was aided by the weakness of the virtuous. none of this is unpredictable. we have hundreds of pieces of maliced legislation intended to deny people on the basis of skin color the right to vote. we have hundreds of pieces of legislation that have been filed