The ongoing movement to undermine the election of 2022, state by State Trumpist Push to replace the people who held the line in 2020. Then europes socalled last dictator using a Fighter Jet to stop a Passenger Airplane and arrest an journalist, increasing boldness of autocrats. Note of caution over the Wuhan Lab theory. And what looks like real progress on bipartisan reform bill. All in starts now. Good evening, im chris hayes. Lot of news on the democracy front. Weird thing to say but in 2021, possibly most important beat there is. Our democracy survived awful assault this year when rioter descended to everturn the results of free and fair election. Were still sifting through what happened. Every day, day after day, if youre attuned to this beat as i am and we are on the show, more and more evidence of the fundamentally dangerous and antidemocratic orientation of the Republican Party across all factions. Case in point, Liz Cheney of wyoming, former chair of the house republican confer
And Kevin Mccarthy has essentially been riding from the uproar. Claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosis Mask restrictions for the House Are Akin to the holocaust, the actual one, in World War ii. Normally wouldnt do this. Her voice annoys me and everything is done but this time you need to hear what she said. This woman is mentally ill. We can look back at time in history people were told to wear a Gold Star and treated like secondclass citizens, put in trains and taken to Gas Chambers in Nazi Germany. This is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about. Didnt stop there. Confronted with predictable outrage of her comparing her and Colleagues Refusal to get vaccinated and mandated to remain masked to prevent spreading a virus that some republicans have already spread to colleagues, compared to millions of jews wearing a Star Of David to be identified and Murdered En Masse by the millions. Marge stomped booted feet out on to alternate reality with alleged Matt Gaetz an