And they look, this really started to get bad in 2016 when Trump got elected the first time. And I look back, I got elected to the Senate in 2012. When I got there in 2012, There was such a thing as moderate Democrats. There were Democrats you could work with who were reasonable. When Trump came into the White House, it broke their brains. It drove them so far left, and they began endorsing really extreme positions. (05:19–05:22)
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