imagine, especially those of who's who can remember the assassinations of president kennedy, martin luther king, and bobbybsolutely. americans have a strange sense of invulnerability, that is occasionally punctured by historical incidents. whether they're assassinations, or pearl harbor, or 9/11. but, we have an unusual comparatively speaking, unusual serenity sometimes, as if democracy has been achieved, and is eternal. as if peace is eternal. it somehow comes to us as a fantastic surprise, when that punctured. i think it's the job, and look, i know that colleagues of mine knew, from both sides of the political sex strung, now believe the left but and the right thing to talk of any civil war is out of bounds, and unreasonable, for different reasons. i respect their analysis, but i think it's our job to take the very serious, measured warnings of scholars, like the ones who came on tonight seriously. they're taking into account very real evidence of the possibility of sporadic violence, like january 6th, that could get worse, and you see groups all over the country, all over the country, that have pledged