distraction, so to speak, of federal prosecution, would be told if you were actually in office. but, to the larger point here as well, consider this. up till now, republicans have criticized him for airing past grievances, the relitigation of 2020. this does provide him a brand-new grievance about post-presidential conduct. and i wonder if there is some warped sense of reality that suggests that, okay, well, you didn t want me to look in the past, how about right now? whether that actually moves the needle the needle for the doj is of course not going to happen. i m old-fashioned in that regard, and so it s really, i do think he ran very early, as soon as the midterms were over, i m running for president, trying to get ahead of all these indictments. i hope people don t keep falling for it. republican primary voters strongly prefer that he talk
glaude? this is a kind of relitigation of the old culture wars. this is harold bloom s the closing of american minds. i have been sitting here trying to keep my cool because i m so angry. there s a sense in which the stakes of what desantis is doing are very high. you have to read this moment yesterday against the backdrop of a report just recently released in the journal of american medical association showing that over the last two decades, black communities have experienced an excess of 1.6 million deaths compared to white folk, and why is that the case? it s a culture of inequality, health care disparity, legacies of rayism and what desantis is doing is cultivating a willful ignorance. it s not an abstract question. it s a question of life and death in some instances and rehashing an old argument by this moment should be getting on
assault on women s rights. assault on the women s liberation movement. assault on the gay liberation movement so we saw among the republican party a relitigation of that period in u.s. history because i think those folk believe that the country they feel a sense of possession of has been lost and so we, it s right for us to read it in terms of electoral politics, but we have to understand i think the underlying sense of what s motivating the base and that is what they perceive to be the fight over the soul of the nation i want to read one thing, i want to get the last word in this conversation to molly who writes this. republicans have run into a ditch. their base gets high off displays of authoritarianism so they ve taken up an agenda that targets fellow americans, inflicting real harm on
these extreme policies they re not abstract i saw a story that one in five americans has been touched by or knows someone impacted by gun violence in the country. it s not disconnected from the conversation we had yesterday that we continue to sassemble t talk about things in the news and the conversation continues to be replaced by coming on the air and having to cover another mass shooting in america yeah, yeah. i ve been thinking about our conversation yesterday in relation to this one one of the things that i think kim and matt are right about what they re saying, but i think we have to think about this outside of election victories. and understand that there are people in the country, particularly in the republican party, who are acting in light of what they perceive an existential threat to the county treme what we re seeing over and over again, a relitigation of the 1960s. assault on voting rights
how do we make sure we re fighting not just voter suppression through relitigation but voter suppression? all those things are going to continue i also think organizations benefit from change. they benefit from new leadership and fresh thinking and i think it s important for those leaders of those organizations every once in a while to take a step back and remove themselves from the minute by minute work and ask themselves what am i now called to do and for me knowing the organization was going to be in good shape, having a lot of trust in our leadership, i thought now was the time to take a step back and take another look at what s happening in our country and how i can best serve. so at this inflection point you re making for all those reasons, which i trust you in terms of explaining those things at this inflection point where do you feel like the democratic party has ground it can reasonably make up not just places where the democratic party is behind but