is elected, how do you defend the Constitution?

How do you defend the rule of law?

And it turns out to be difficult.

And you can't stop everything an authoritarian would do if armed with control over the executive branch.

But you can do a lot of things to delay and deflect and diminish the damage that that authoritarian might try to do.

And you've got some of it up on your screen, or you did.

It includes, I think, the ultimate response

is that the American people have to demonstrate that they reject living in an

autocracy. So that starts with polling. Donald Trump cares about his polls and he needs support well

beyond his minority magg a base in order to have the kind of soft power that a president has went back by the public.

But yeah, I mean, we may need demonstrations, disciplined and peaceful demonstrations in large numbers that

lasts a long time, potentially, or there may need to be a general strike.

I mean, the people may need to show with their, with their feet and where they go and what they say that they don't want to be

governed by a despond. But I mean there are there lots of things to do before that. I mean there are are there are there are lots of things to do before that I mean there are there are legal

there are litigation strategies but if the president steps over the line there's

use of every power of Congress to avoid funding things

that Trump wants to do that are abuses of power.

There is the need to organize self-defense

for the defenders of democracy.

He has the power to target his political enemies with prosecutions, with

acts audits, with with regulations, with antitrust. He can say, go, you know, go get this person or that person.

He said, I'm going to prosecute the Biden crime family.

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