and donald trump and the senior leaders at the justice department, if they were looking at a conspiracy to commit a coup, a conspiracy to overthrow the government. here s what he said. the predominant worry that i have about our democracy is not that it is going to be overthrown by a violent revolution notwithstanding that we endured a violent attempt at insurrection, but rather that there will be quasi legal means that so undermine our democracy that it creates a crisis and it falls apart. this is what the republicans tried to do. the trump campaign and administration tried to do. with this memo. but it s also what gop party leaders are trying to do around the country by stripping independent elections officials of their powers and handing them to partisan boards. so that they can succeed where they failed with this attempted coup. so what caught my ear was this quasi legal effort. i mean the eastman memo, i don t