Jonathan Capehart:
I don't know.
We're living in the middle of it now. The people who are now in Washington, part of the new — this new Republican majority in the House, they were elected to come to Washington and break it. And so whether it's Donald Trump or another Republican president, the folks who vote for them hope that these people come here and break this town, because they think it deserves to be broken, because they think it's rigged.
And a lot of the language that comes out of former President Trump and a lot of Republicans is all about projection, the weaponization of the DOJ, just that — the term weaponization. Well, we know because Donald Trump has promised, if he's reelected, he will — he said: I will be your retribution. I will go after the people who are coming after me, because, if they're coming after me, that's a proxy for them coming after you.
That kind of language is incredibly dangerous, not just for our institutions, but also for our just national political discourse, how we talk about each other, but also, to David's point, the respect we should have for these institutions, because, without these institutions, where is America?
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