It is Tuesday, September 9th.

This is the warning.

Among the great astonishments of this age,

no doubt it will be that there was ever a question about whether we were in a constitutional crisis.

Of course, the coup of January 6th, 2021, announced its arrival.

And then the denial of the violence, the assault on hundreds of police officers by thousands

of insurrectionists was denied.

Donald Trump said it was a perfect protest.

Peaceful.

Let's watch.

And what you never see is the crowd.

The crowd was the largest crowd I've ever spoken before.

And a small portion walked peacefully and patriotically down to the Capitol.

You remember the term?

Peacefully and patriotically. He's horrible. It's insurrection.

You know, if you have an insurrection, you don't say peacefully and patriotically, right, Mike?

You say, let's go. So many sycophants repeated it everywhere. And then those criminals were pardoned and those enemies of the Constitution

were called patriots. And 49.5% of the country elected a felon, a liar, a conman, and a vicious

racist to the office of the president of the United States, despite him plainly saying

that he intended to be a dictator and that he sought revenge against his enemies. And so, here we are.

The New York Times writer, Ezra Klein, said that we've entered a period of authoritarian consolidation.

And that seems right. You should appreciate

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