I think we need to be watching for something that they call autocratic breakthrough. Autocratic

breakthrough is when the party in power uses the power they do have in government to make

sure they can never be dislodged from government. I'll give you a concrete example.

You've already seen in the House of Representatives now that Mike Johnson is back in as Republican House Speaker.

They change the rules in the House to make it much harder to remove him as Speaker.

Okay.

By the way, Rachel, if you're going to bring a concept and a construct like autocratic breakthrough,

you can't come in with Mike Johnson. I mean,

Natalie's right. You can't have Polly Pockets change the rules committee. That's not good enough.

Okay. You've got to bring the heat. So this is very important, and we're going to hammer down on

this. You can see direction where this is going. You're absolutely correct.

There's no conspiracies, but there's no coincidences.

A lot of this, they got a lot more organized on the wash, rinse, repeat, ma'am,

after the big conference they had in D.C. last week.

Is that your take on things?

Oh, for sure. Look, I wish Mike Johnson was the type of Republican

that Rachel Maddow and the entire left wing media apparatus demonized him to be, but unfortunately

we're stuck with a weak will do nothing. Mike Johnson, but no, I think you're absolutely right.

And I know sometimes the audience just wants to have the victory party, but like we've always said, you know, I think there's no better microcosm for this

whole debate than the case of the Jack Smith indictment and all the January 6th Tanya Chuck and stuff, right?

Yeah, sure, for the next four years, the lawfare goes away. But they dismissed it in a way that

literally the day President Trump leaves office,

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