we saw during the supreme court justice confirmation hearings that josh holley -- senator josh holley was constantly implying in some way that, you know, jackson's record on sentencing child porn offenders was the same thing as being sort of pro-pedophile. and we've also seen that, you know, ron desantis' press secretary has said that anyone who criticizes the don't say gay bill in florida is actually a groomer, which is, you know, perverse and absurd. and so it's not just greene. she's really the tip of the spear. >>i yeah. so you ask some good questions in this piece. those questions are where is the off-ramp. how do you dehumanize an entire population you've decided is demonic? what was does this mean for our country? >> well, it's really difficult to see how you can make the opposition out to become in some sense entirely monstrous and then also at the same time engage in good faith negotiation with them over legislation and policy and consider election contests to be the sort of things you can back down from easily. what this does is make elections not just sort of political comp