It is now time to hand it over to my friend Ali Veltier who is in for Lawrence O'Donnell hosting the last word.

It is, I'm just really, I mean you're just a few feet away from me in another studio.'ve not seen you in weeks it's nice to

see you on TV tonight my friend you have yourself a great weekend and we'll

both each other on the weekend yeah tomorrow morning Brian Early for you my friend

thanks buddy have a good weekend you You too. Well in the battle

between democratic values and Trumpism, Trumpism is becoming a stand-in for losing.

And it's not just me who think so. We have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came.

We got trounced last night in 2023.

No lie there. Of course true to form that Republican running

against Trump did not blame him for the losses. No Republican on that

debate stage on Wednesday dared to really

take on the albatross named Donald Trump not in front of an audience of

Republican voters. So that's hopeless. Good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups

now have to assume that Republicans cannot or more likely will not stamp out the threat of Trumpism in their party.

A red wave never materialized for Republicans, which was good news for democracy in the

2022 midterms, and Republicans really did get trounce this week, which is even more good news for democracy.

The leader of the Republican Party has recently been posting memes of the U.S. capital on fire with the words I'm coming back to clean up this mess.

That actually happened as the FBI was in the midst of a manhunt today for a capital

rioter a former New Jersey National Guard police sergeant who was accused of

pepper spraying officers at the Capitol on January 6th.

NBC reports that Gregory Yetman was identified in early 2022

by online sloths who go by the name Sedition hunters,

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