is beyond the pale, this is off the tracks. something s going on here that we haven t seen before, and that leads to a very bad place. that s the context that s missing. and the place where i see this most squarely and there s a bunch of different examples to me is the georgia primary with david perdue where you ve had a crashing together of the normal and abnormal because david purdue is like ten years ago an ostensibly normal politician. i wouldn t think of him as an anti-democratic force in american politics and now he s primarying kemp for governor of georgia on an exist essentially pro-coup. and you see purdue in a very opportunistic way seizing on a