Guests: 

Geoff Kabaservice is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center.  He is the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party. 

John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. His latest book co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.

His latest pieces on the GOP campaign in The Nation are:

Tonight’s GOP Debate Could Put the Final Nail in Ron DeSantis’s Political Coffin. Trump has trashed DeSantis for months. Yet the Florida governor apparently plans to defend Trump in the debate. Dumb move!

Trump’s (Still) the One: Despite the Georgia indictments—and all his other legal troubles—Democrats are still going to have to beat him next November.

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