filibuster more painful to execute for the minority party. how do you think this might play out, stuart? his migh play out, stuart i don t know. i think it really goes to the central question of do you believe there is an existential threat to american democracy? i think it s pretty obvious. you have the power play as a plot to stop the peaceful transition of power. i don t know how obvious it can be. this is what the zimmerman telegraph this is a power point. so, i think it is an existential threat. this is sort of like a pandemic. what we see at the beginning will sound alarmist, this could be proved to be we inadequate at the end. and i can tell you are somebody who knows a lot of these people, this is what they want. they really want to change democracy, because they can t come to grips with the changing america, with an increasingly non-white america. and their inability to attract those votes. and the tragic reaction to it