Hello there. I'm Kristen Welker. I just wrapped up another episode of Meet the

Press where I interviewed Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah and

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

We led the broadcast with former President Trump setting off alarms about his plans for a second term.

He said in a televised town hall this week that he would abuse his power to go after his political

opponents but only quote on day one this as the Republican Party has so far struggled

to firm up a resistance to the former president even as privately top GOP power brokers

reportedly vent their frustration with their party's current leader.

I'm sitting here now with Jonathan Martin, senior political columnist and

Politics Bureau Chief for Political. He was just on the Meet the Press Panel and in his

latest column he poses this question, where are all the anti-Trump Republicans?

Jonathan, welcome to Postgame.

Thank you for having it.

Great to be back here.

It's great to have you here.

So let's start there.

Where are all the anti-Trump Republicans?

What's going on?

Resigned to his inevitability, depressed about it, not doing a damn thing to change it.

Let's start there.

Well, it's such a fascinating point and you raise so many interesting points about that in your article.

And the fact that they're just not organizing, they're not coalescing around a plan. It's the dog that's not barking and here it is

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