capitol. also tonight, the supreme court rejects a ridiculous lawsuit to restrict access to the abortion pill but left open the possibility that future bans could actually succeed. but we begin tonight with chaos at home and chaos abroad. as president biden met with nervous world leaders for the gp summit amid the rise of european fascism, donald trump was rallying his sycophantic troops in washington, d.c. as for the chaos at home, allow me to share a story you probably don t hear much about. probably didn t hear much about. last night s congressional baseball game, an annual affair that s normally pretty innocuous. this year, it was interrupted by climate protestors. eight were arrested as they tried to protest on the field wearing shirts reading end fossil fuels. meanwhile, representative lauren bobert was reportedly flouting rules by vaping where it s forbidden. the whole affair is in some ways emblemmatic of our politics. particularly the embarrassing house of represen
obviously. the question is is mitch mcconnell on your side and the answer is no, not really. what gives a dividing line? it s really simple. the people in charge are intent on replacing our free democratic system with an authoritarian system where they don t convince you of anything, they simply make you do things and benefit from that. there are people in this country who are opposed to that. they are antiauthoritarian, and if you look at who we book on this show that may explain why. a lot of former lefties. glenn greenwald is the most obvious and many others. we probably don t agree with these people on a lot of things, are we on the same side on abortion? we ve never asked. but one thing we know for certain is that we are totally opposed to authoritarianism, so that really is the divide. people are for an a free america. it s that simple.
obviously, but then the question is, is mitch mcconnell on your site? an answer as you well know is no, not really. what is the dividing line? it is pretty simple. the people in charge are intent on replacing our free democratic system with an authoritarian system where they don t convince you of anything, they simply make you do things and benefit from that. there are people in this country who are opposed to that. they are antiauthoritarian, and if you look at who we book on this show that may explain why. a lot of former lefties. glenn greenwald is the most obvious and many others. we probably don t agree with these people on a lot of things, are we on the same side on abortion? we ve never asked. but one thing we know for certain is that we are totally opposed to authoritarianism, so that really is the divide. people are for an authoritarian america and those for a free america.
and talk to people involved in the resistance against him and the same thing with putin and the resistance against him and the same thing in china and the incredibly moving third portion of your book on the hong kong protesters. it made me feel like i learned from the way that you learned it about the authoritarian playbook and the way all of the authoritarians do. not exactly the same but they all do basically the same things to not only get power but consolidate it and work very hard on never giving it up. i don t feel there is an antiauthoritarian playbook that is as tested and as effective and i feel like the lessons aren t, other than sort of this longing for a little bit more solidarity among different people who are resisting different authoritarians in different parts of the world i don t know that they ve got a playbook that works other places, too. well, i think what you see is different playbooks in different places. part of the argument i m making is we have to learn from
about the authoritarian playbook and about the way that all of the authoritarians do. not exactly the same but they all do basically the same things to not only get power but consolidate it and work very hard on never giving it up. i don t feel like there is an antiauthoritarian playbook that is as tested and as effective and i feel like the lessons aren t, other than sort of this longing for a little bit more solidarity among different people who are resisting different authoritarians in different parts of the world, i don t know that they ve got a playbook that works other places, too. well, i think what you see is different playbooks in different places. part of the argument i m making here is we have to learn from one another. in hong kong where they really had an asymmetry of power with the communist party they were setting up to. first of all, what that tells us we keep hearing of the attractiveness of the chinese model of governance. there was one city in the world had a chanc