Hi everybody it's 4 o'clock in New York if you want to understand why all sorts of folks from all across the political ideological spectrum, people from Liz Cheney on the right, Jamie Raskin and Joe Biden,

are warning on a near daily basis in increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now

Don't understand why one party's careen toward authoritarianism threatens to derail the entire American experiment, the entire

republic can actually just look no further than what happened last night.

Mickey Haley's endorsement of her primary opponent,

Donald Trump, is part of what has now

become a time-honored tradition of today's Republican Party

in the Trump era.

Prominent Republicans who's closely held private views

about the ex-president may not actually be that different from mine or that of any

Trump critic or any Democrat,

end up taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn

from Donald Trump, including attacks on their spouses.

And then despite all that, despite everything, including attacks on their spouses.

And then despite all that, despite everything he said about their families

and everything they've said about him in return, they turn around

and offer him their endorsement.

There's Ted Cruz's capitulation before the 2016 election

after Trump attacked his wife Heidi.

Cruz said this.

Donald, you're a sniveling coward. Cruz said this.

Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. Real men don't try to bully women.

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