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MEACHAM: "Nobody who is really in the arena right now, who might face voters again, is stepping up to play Sam Ervin, or on the Republican side a Goldwater or a Hugh Scott or Howard. It seems to me that something happened in 2016 when Trump was, you know, we joked about this before, it was the first recorded case of a hijacker boarding an airplane and the passengers sided with the hijacker. That continues to be the dynamic. I’m particularly disappointed with Speaker Ryan. You wouldn’t have thought that the Wisconsin figure he would have something in common with would be Joe McCarthy, but right now it’s an open question."