joining us now is daniel ziplot and one of the aforementioned authors of the book "how democracies die." thank you for being here with us, daniel, i greaty appreciate your time. your book ends with several steps to divert the collapse of democracy in america. but it was written in 2018. given what we have seen in the intervening years since that book came out, is it too late to take the steps that you outlined. >> thank you for having me. it's not too late, but i do have to say when we wrote the book we were very nervous and worried that donald trump showed all of the indicators of demagogues we had studied in other parts of the world. but one of the things that's really changed over the last several years that we've grown to realize, the problem is not about a single leader and his cult, rather, it's much more endemic, much deeper, much broader. really the problem today in the united states is that the republican party has been taken over by the maga faction, as it's sometimes called, essentially is behaving as an authoritarian party. much more similar to parties like the bjp in india