when it actually can be really interesting to use everything we've land and take a bigger fear. that's what we want to do here. i'm joined by longtime democratic strategist and several campaigns including obama's, and columnist for the daily beast and veteran beat, friend, margaret carlson. happy holidays, you guys. >> thank you. >> happy holidays. >> absolutely. one question about the view, starting with shea, what did you learn this year from the midterms on about american politics? >> well, as philosopher hinkle said, the only thing you learn from history is nobody's ever learn from history. i think that's something i very much learn about the gop this year. they didn't learn from history. they kept repeating the same states, they kept going to the same base. and they are sort of feels like it's a bookend of two different announcements. in 2015, when trump went down that golden escalator, he changed america and the world,