Marine Le Pen is looking to link up with a far left party to take over the country.

We are in the age of global gangsterism.

The age folks like Vladimir Putin have planned for decades.

Look at this map.

It reflects an alarming worldwide trend on the rise in autocracy.

These are the countries who had elections this year, based on their democracy grade by the economist.

Those colored in blue are authoritarian.

Those colored in yellow are hybrid regimes.

And those colored in red, including the United States, are deemed flawed democracies.

Look, first of all, don't put me in a corner where I never went.

I am not saying the Democratic Party is finished and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

You've been talking about some historical parallels.

I would draw an analogy, and Joe, you remember, to 1968, when Richard Nixon barely defeated the incumbent vice president who had taken over for the incumbent president who had withdrawn from the race.

That was a really close election, but it signaled a change, a big change, which was the end, really, of New Deal liberalism.

It didn't happen all at once.

It took maybe 12 years until Ronald Reagan swept it away in 1980.

But that's where I'm looking more a trend, which is the trend toward populism, right-wing populism.

It's a global phenomenon.

It's, yes, Mika, you're right.

It's been coming in this country for eight years.

But the fact that Donald Trump won again, despite being pretty unpopular, despite having

tried to overthrow an election, despite being a convicted

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