 So I feel like I really shouldn't have to say this because it's pretty self-evident to anyone with common sense But the Republican Party is absolutely insane They are off their rocker and with each passing day they grow more and more unhinged And I don't even think that is hyperbolic to say that the Republican Party like the current iteration of Republicans They're effectively a death cult and when you consider the fact that they refuse to expand healthcare at all They want to gut existing social safety net programs. They want to do away with social security their pro war They're seemingly on the side of a virus. That's incredibly contagious as they you know ban mask mandates in certain states and they spread anti-vaccine misinformation they're effectively a death cult and it's not like there's any silver lining It's not like you know future generations are gonna be any better because I mean you could point to some good signs that the Republican Party in The future won't be as extreme because they support, you know, pot legalization Socially they're becoming less and less conservative as the years go on But is there really any hope when you consider the fact that the youngest member of Congress in the Republican Party Madison Cawthorne is more extreme than perhaps some of his colleagues. I Mean this is an individual who openly fantasized about a new American civil war Literally and that's what we're talking about here today and he's not fantasizing about an American civil war He's not fantasizing about picking up a gun and killing fellow Americans in his private diary He's broadcasting his implicit intent to do violence to lots of people in public So this party continues to become more and more extreme. We had a president Donald Trump So how far out are we until we get a president Marjorie Green or someone even worse? I mean, how far away are we from Republicans who are like literally shitting themselves in public frothing at the mouth? Who knows but I know that this version of the Republican Party with individuals like Madison Cawthorne I don't want to see what a more extreme version of the GOP looks like they're more extreme than most Mainstream political parties who are like totally viable throughout the world. I mean parties like this are usually fringe parties in Europe I mean, that's that's changing But still the fact that they're this extreme is is insane and it's not gonna change anytime soon as Ross stories Matthew Chapman explains On Monday CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale flagged a speech Representative Madison Cawthorne gave to a group of Republicans in Macon County, North Carolina in an event on Sunday In which she not only continued to push former president Donald Trump's big lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen But suggests that conservatives may need to resort to violence to prevent such elections from happening again quote if our election systems Continue to be rigged continue to be stolen then it's gonna lead to one place and that's bloodshed said Cawthorne Quote there's nothing I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American and the way that we can Have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states in response The Dale's fact-check a spokesperson for Madison Cawthorne quickly tried to walk back the congressman's suggestion of civil war quote Cawthorne is clearly advocating for violence not to occur over election integrity questions He fears others would erroneously choose that route and strongly states that election integrity issues should be resolved peacefully and never through violence Cawthorne also provoked controversy at the Macomb County event by suggesting the jailed Participants in the January 6th Capitol attack are political hostages and that he is actively working on a plan to bring Trump supporters back to the Capitol So this is how extreme they are They implicitly advocate for violence and then they gaslight you Pretend like they never said that. Why would you think that he's advocating for violence? He's only saying that if the election is stolen again based on their conspiracy theories, which are not verifiable at all But if they continue to be delusional and believe that the election was stolen even if they have no evidence that that was the case Well, you know then it might lead to some Americans picking up guns and just killing other people doing a new civil war And of course he wouldn't want to do that. He definitely doesn't want to you know have it come to that He dreads that but he would do it. Oh You think he's advocating for violence. How stupid of you? He only called the people who stormed the Capitol political hostages Why would you think he's advocating for violence? I mean this kind of rhetoric is exactly what encouraged people to storm the Capitol on January 6th There's like disagreement over objective reality He can say something Republicans generally speaking can say something and then they'll deny that they said that even if you have them on tape They'll say no, no that that's not what I was saying I meant this other thing that even doesn't make sense when you put it in context, but I met the opposite of what you think I said okay and Empirical reality doesn't work that way. Okay, I think that sometimes people say things that are open to interpretation But first of all what you're saying is I really hope that there's not violence and if This party continues to spread lies about the election. There will be violence I mean first of all that standard is impossible because The election wasn't stolen and you're claiming that it is and it's gonna lead to violence and possibly should lead to violence If it's stolen again or you think it's stolen again because you're stupid and believe in conspiracy theories So understand why what he's saying here is absolutely insane So if he chooses to propagate the conspiracy theory that another election is stolen He's saying well man that would be terrible because it could lead to violence. Okay, we'll stop believing conspiracy theories stop Spreading misinformation. You're a member of Congress But yet you're spreading verifiably untrue things You have no evidence that the election was stolen anything that you have cited as a reason as to why we should question the results of the 2020 election has Been disproven a million times over and yet you're saying well if people believe that this election is stolen again Because we told them that was stolen then they're gonna be violent Okay, well if you don't want violence, wouldn't you stop spreading misinformation that leads to people being violent? Isn't this like a tacit admission that your side is pretty violent and If you speak glowingly of the capital rioters, isn't that kind of like a wink and a nod to these people? Oh, I'm not promoting violence wink wink to he It's just this is this is unsustainable under these conditions created by the Republican Party Democracy is not long for this world and that's not to say that the Democratic Party is good There are many instances of Democrats being incredibly authoritarian and undemocratic in Buffalo, for example a socialist defeated the incumbent Democrat and He's basically accusing her of being a radical socialist using the same a Trumpian rhetoric against that Trump used against the squad and They're considering abolishing the position of mayor to stop her from winning He's running this right in campaign byron brown against India Walton So there are instances where Democrats do things that are deeply deeply undemocratic Their behavior during Democratic Party primaries where they talk about using superdelegates to support the will of the majority of Their base that's also incredibly dangerous But there is the Democratic Party's Undemocratic rhetoric and then there's the Republican Party's undemocratic rhetoric both are bad One of them is going to lead to the collapse of our entire fucking system It doesn't stop if their extremism isn't reigned in even a little bit. So I mean everyone who is a Functioning adult should see that the Republican Party is a threat They're a threat to democracy in the United States They're a violent threat and they're also a threat to the world hence why I think that we should call them what they are a death cult I Mean climate change is going to Wipe out millions of people potentially and there's Republicans that are still denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change So under these circumstances, I mean They're not leaving us with Many options. We can't try to reason with these people who are becoming increasingly unreasonable. So we have to try To explain to people that this party is not your friend. They are the enemy of people. They are a stream They are insane and the quicker more people realize how extreme the modern GOP is When we put their extremism in context and compare them with other right-wing parties around the world They see that this party is fucking insane and delusional literally but It's not gonna change anytime soon and every indication that we've gotten Suggests that they're only gonna continue to get more extreme more delusional and that's horrifying You