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. because it is a tactic of pro-autocracy movements, which is what the republican party has largely become, to make these wild accusations. because then it makes any accommodation with the other side to impossible. it then makes it morally not only permissible, but you have a moral obligation to destroy the other side, if they re nazis, you must destroy them. if they re pedophiles, you must put them in jail. and this is just another evidence of how the republican party is falling in line with this autocratic playbook.
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.