i could understand some argument that if you re going to have trump prosecuted in another jurisdiction, that you don t want to make it look political. but i think you have to just refer these things. and i think the justice department has to go after them. because if you allow what happened on 1/6 to go unpunished criminally. if overthrowing the government of the united states is not a crime, it only becomes a practice. and that s this is not going to be an isolated event. this is a long-term campaign they have to change the kind of country that we live in, and we should just accept that and meet it for what it is and fight it. molly, it drives me up the wall when i hear democrats always trying, i don t know, road test their arguments by wondering how republicans will react to it. it s never the other way around. you hear democrats say, if we add justices to the court, what if they do it, as if the republicans won t do it anyway. if we get rid of the filibuster, what would they do.
aspect. there are a lot of gay republicans. when i worked in republican campaigns, as far as i knew, i worked with more gay men than i did when i worked in television shows in hollywood. and it s just some strange inability to accept this, that is, you know, deeply engrained inside it. there was a brief moment when it looked like the republican party was going to do embrace this culture, this shift on gay marriage, but they only did it for political expediency, and now they think it s more political expedient to bash gays and are back to doing that. and it s the bark that is the problem. it feels like we have gone back in time. molly, the republicans have successfully turned right lane s don t say gay law into campaign on the right to demonize gay teachers. are we back to the days of thinking any gay adult is in
so you can t just vote them out, you have to destroy them. let s turn to former republican strategist and former republican, stewart stevens. he s worked for five gop presidential campaigns, including mitt romney s 2012 run for the white house. now he s a senior adviser at the lincoln project. plus, molly john faust, a contributing writer at the atlantic, and she s also co-host of the podcast, the new abnormal. thank you both for joining me tonight. stewart, marjorie taylor greene calls any republican senators who support judge jackson s confirmation as pro-pedophile. that includes your former boss, mitt romney. what do you make of that kind of rhetoric and the silence from the gop leadership? look, i think that there are two big things sort of happening. there s this craziness inside the republican party. and this is what putin is doing. he s calling a jewish president of ukraine a nazi. these are not un-related.