Mehdi Hasan: “I think it`s going to be one of the defining questions about politics over the next couple of years, what drives these…”

If Barack Obama had incited Black Lives Matter protesters to attack the Capitol to stop the electoral count for Donald Trump in 2017, do you think the Republicans would have held a five-day witness-free trial?

So, I mean, our politics are broken out, democracies broken when 70 percent of the public support a bill and not a single Republican in the House or Senate support it. That is broken democracy.

I think we saw leaders tell us lies over the last 20 years. Tell us many, many lies.

They represent a very large minority. They don't represent the majority, but they do represent a big enough minority to rule in a system which leans towards minority rule.