how key MAGA figures like Steve Bannon are helping and using Donald Trump to turn January 6th

into a success story of authoritarianism here in the US.

He writes this, quote, Bannon believed the MAGA movement if it could break out of being suppressed and

marginalized by the establishment represented a dominant coalition that could rule for a

hundred years. The Republicans were the one standing in the way. A BANEN's plans, quote, the first guys that we got to take down is a Republican party he said we haven't

done that yet we're getting there Trump's our instrument we're getting there we're

getting there we're back the, Isaac Arnstorf.

Congrats, Pub Day is tomorrow. Thank you. We were joking about being eclipsed by

the eclipse. You won't be. You're in the clear now. it's over. Tell me about, I mean, their successes are clear.

I mean, there is no Republican Party.

It's Trumpism, and Joe Biden is running against Trumpism.

Joe Biden's running against a MAGA movement that isn't maybe as big as it was in

16, but it is certainly more virulent.

And tell me if that is a means to an end or the end?

What it has is it has an institutional home now,

which is the Republican Party itself.

And this is really something that changed

in the aftermath of January 6th, because the story that developed in the in office on January 6th was because of a few uncooperative Republicans.

And it's actually a lot of truth in that, right?

If you think about the Republicans who stood up to him and prevented him from overturning the election,

it was Republicans.

And so the idea was that the movement needed to take over the party

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