senator sinema and there s a lack of clarity on where she stand, a member of her own family, tierny. yeah, that s a lot. you brought up mccain which is a pretty instructive example. maybe you remember john mccain from voting against unraveling obamacare, but people here at this table are also familiar with john mccain on the campaign trail when he was facing challenges from the right. can you go find it now online, build the dang fence ad. john mccain would tack sharply rightwards in the primaries, not recognizable as the john mccain inside the beltway when he did so. this is interesting because the big question is yes, she s vulnerable to a primary challenge. what is she going to sound like on the trail? i don t think it s going to be a lot of i stopped medicare from lowering drug prices and i kept corporate tax rates low. i don t think that s going to be
perspective the progressives is she used to be one of them. she started out in political life at the statehouse on the local level as very, very progressive. if you put that in contrast with somebody like joe manchin who has always represented a conservative state, and now it s very, very conservative, but he s always been in that point of view and always said on the campaign trail for decade, even when he was governor, i don t want the government to work for you, i want to be your partner. that s not the sentiment of senator sinema. she just barely won flat election, 50% to 4% over martha mcsale. if you re senator sinema, my race was real close. mark kelly won last year and some say she should be more confident about her base. richie torres says there s a intelligence which we no longer live in a democracy. we live under the tierny of
there s tuition-free community college and now we re hearing she s opposing corporate tax rates and individual tax rates, raising a major question about how they exactly plan to finance this program as the democrats have been promising for some time. now there s now concerns that she could potentially have on the left facing a possible primary challenge come 2024. run congressman said he would not rule out the idea of challenging her, saying voters in arizona are very upwith her and it s been said there s a sense in which we no longer live in a democracy. we live under the tierny of kirst ensinema. i can live with dis-september. my close and i had trouble living with what we remember receive to be erraticism. i spoke with speaker pelosi about senator sinema s opposition and how they would
warn. that is a quote from the book on tierny over the south lake, texas school district. joining me now is timothy schneider. the author of multiple books. professor, good to see you. thank you for joining us. i want to talk to you about this. when you talk and write about the big lie and tyranny and authoritarianism. some people think of the big level. what tends to happen, it sprinkles down and gets to places like school districts where people decide that alternative realities or what they call alternative facts are viable and should be taught to their kids. this is right. democracy depends on history.