You're an expert on this subject.
Are we living in an autocracy?
Not yet.
So we still have
plenty of agency.
We have opposition
political parties.
We can do this.
We have, a civil society
that functions.
We have, a press that functions.
See, you know,
there's at least
five members of it
sitting right here.
The highly functional.
We haven't
we haven't been arrested yet.
Yeah.
You know what you're watching now?
You are.
And I don't think this is
just Trump.
It's actually people around Trump.
We've learned from
what's happened in other places.
And who are some guys
sometimes openly
imitating what
they've seen in Hungary or Turkey,
or even Venezuela.
You have people around him
who who understand
what are the levers to press on
if you want to destroy democracy.
So you eliminate the independent
civil service.
You undermine judges,
you undermine experts
as as Tom just said,
there they are.
This is a playbook,
and they are following it.
But there is nothing
inevitable about politics.
And just because they know
what the playbook is
and they've started to follow,
it doesn't mean that they
achieve their goal in the end,
which is which is
making sure
we don't ever vote again
or that or that our vote
doesn't mean anything.