i apologize for that. i don t mean it to be. i do think it is a question. if you are just in this to be an office, and therefore you are willing to a base yourself again and again. you are willing to traffic the craziest conspiracy theories, the weirdest things you can imagine, then that turns the country . it turns the lower case d for democratic experiment into an arena for power to take power away from the week, as opposed to enacting this idea that we are founding on, that we re all created equal and we have to find a way to perfect this in perfect union, which is imperfect because you and i are imperfect. you may not be, but i am. that is with the democratic experiment is supposed to be. it is not that today in the republican party. it is also about knowing that you are imperfect, right?
at a certain point, if it is just about the getting of votes and the amassing of power and the remaining in place, than it enables, even encourages, the kind of behavior we saw this week because of jonathan martin and alex burns s book. the hearing down in georgia with marjorie taylor greene. you saw with mccarthy in green, the wages of power being the central motivator as opposed to the principle and attempted service. that sound self righteous. i apologize for that. i don t mean it to be. i do think it is a question. if you are just in this to be an office, and therefore you are willing to a base yourself again and again. you are willing to traffic the craziest conspiracy theories, the weirdest things you can