They have been told that democracy is really not worth it and it's kind of weak in a globe today where autocrats can move much more quickly. There's been a lot of intellectual work done inside the sort of MAGA infrastructure to explain why democracy is dead as a political concept. So, yeah, there are a handful of Republicans in the Senate who want the democracy to stick around and aren't doing the right thing because they're afraid of Donald Trump. (17:17–17:27)
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