was people using violence to try to overturn democracy. but there has another element. in the short-term, yes, they were trying to disrupt the certification of the election with violence. but it fit into this broader effort by donald trump which was to install him as president for a second term by any means necessary by using the false pretext of conspiracy theory about voter fraud to try to get republican officials in key states and the house and senate to overturn the election results, to band together, to unite and to specifically reject the election results. that threat, according to democracy scholars i ve been talking to in recent weeks, has only grown. you ve seen it in the house. the number three house republican on the day of january 6th is basically persona nongrat that in the caucus, liz cheney. she was replaced with someone extremely loyal to donald trump.
believes the president is a racist. 51%. that s in this country. 51%. voters believe the president is a racist. it is an existential threat to us. it is something that we must deal with. it is one thing to want to defeat the president at the polls. but it s another thing to understand that we have to impeach the philosophy that he s perpetrating upon society. if we impeach the philosophy, we take on a broader, a broader threat to society than just defeating him at the polls. and the way to impeach that philosophy, ma am, is to impeach this president if he is not defeated in the senate, he will still run as an impeached president and there will be a good many people who won t want to hold fundraisers with him. a good many people who won t want to be in his company because he become persona
trump hasn t spoken to the obamas or the clintons since around this time at his inauguration. jonathan, i saved this for you. what do you make of what we saw and how just was it? that s interesting, how just was it. president trump in that crowd was persona nongrat. a all of those people, particularly the democrats sitting there had been targeted for assassination by pipe bomb and when asked have you fall it had obamas or the clintons he said no, i ll pass. he s out there at rallies in the leadup to the midterm elections saying i want to prosecute hillary clinton. the people sitting there and he was trying to prosecutor. it wasn t rhetoric. no, it wasn t rhetoric. he was trying to do it so the idea the fact that the obamas reached their hands out to him to shake to shake his hand, they are living what they
republican party that he s now sort of leading his side on. in terms of consequences, this is the type of things that could theoretically put the republican senate majority in jeopardy. these guys are going off 90-percenters. what do they want? 100%? do they want right wingers in the senate? is that what bannon wants, right wingers, alt-right people? he certainly wants avatars of the trump base. he wants anti-establishment candidates. he wants outsiders and people who are going to support him in his goal of getting rid of mitch mcconnell. why does he want to get rid of orrin hatch? what does he want? jeff flake in particular has made himself persona nongrat that of the trump for being so critical. steve bannon is encouraging a slate of challenges to run against republican senators.