base. yes. exactly. they have. and it is, look, these leaders are so weak that they re afraid to tell their own followers the truth. that is a sign of weakness. but chris krebs is absolutely right. what s happened is all of this has gotten totally out of control. it s like they thought we could have a controlled burn, a controlled camp fire, and instead, you have this raging conflagration and they don t know what to do except to go along with it. to frank s point, we have had surveys showing a majority of trump voters would support secession. there is irresponsible, reckless talk of civil war. this is a moment at which americans are increasingly looking at one another with distrust, with loathing, with fear. there s a possibility we will pull apart. and what does donald trump do? he figures that this is exactly the chaos that he needs to launch his revenge tour and he s pouring kerosene on it so it is a dangerous moment that s