>> i think someone like william jennings brian would think he's in a lost century, probably. if you start looking at the profile of who is obviously a fundamentalist he wrote at the skokes trial. you start digging into his background. i think he's one of the most fascinating characters, which makes us, drives us to use the historical imagination to figure out how to be all of these things. he was a passifist, an evangelical, he was a progressive, which for that day would be the word liberal that we use now. he was anti-imperialist. and how in his mind he could put all of those things together. my take on it is that he was probably, in terms of escotology, post-millenial. you reform the world and things get better and better. and then christ comes back after the millenium. and so you engage in all those things, or the war doesn't work with the millenium, so you have to be anti-war, alcohol doesn't work with the millenium, so you want to get that as a reform. and you do all of these things -- so i think just looking at his life is a lesson in how complex evangelicals can be. an

the democratic party for years, williams jennings brian didn't believe in evolution.ited states and many of these people who are racists were former democrats and richard nixon decided he wanted to bring them in for political reasons and then ronald reagan furthered that movement, the religious right which has nothing to do with christian principles. it was brought in. we can get these people out. they have driven respectable people out of the republican party. we can go back to being the party of abraham lincoln and teddy roosevelt who did a lot to protect the environment, and we could be a constructive party, and we're going to do that. these people are out the door, and this is only the beginning. they are out the door. >> i salute richard's optimism there. i hope he's right. >> i want to give chris the last word. is it possible to do? >> it is possible to do. but here's the thing. what's happening is that we have allowed the party to be hijacked by this kind of nonsense, and if we don't move away from that as a party we can forget it. >> christopher, sara, david,