professors daniel ziblatt and steven livitsky join me here tonight.et tonight. let me just first start with -- we began this show talking about sort of the minority, working its way through congress in terms of an agenda to an attempt to impeach the president. now, it's a majority of republicans, but still it is not a desire shared greatly by the american public. at least by what we're pulling. what do you make of the republican party at this point? i know we read that quote, but is it a force of anti-democratic -- is it effectively an anti-democratic force on american society at present? >> we propose a senate criteria for citizens to evaluate whether a political party is democratic or not. and to be a loyal democrat, to be committed to democracy, you have to be three things. you have to accept elections, win or lose. you have to not use violence to gain power or hold onto power, and then most tricky of all, you have to distance yourself if you are a party or politician, from groups and allies that undertake those two violations. so that third criter