Charlie Sykes: It Is Getting Darker in America and Trump Is the Role Model in Chief

EXCERPT:

SYKES: “Yeah. It -- it is disheartening, and I tried to be an optimist, and I know it’s early in the morning, but -- but I have this gut sense that everything that is -- that is happening that is bad is about to get worse."
BRZEZINSKI: "Right."
SYKES: "And in part, it is because the president is the role model in chief, and it’s not just that we have retreated to our corners and our alternative reality bubbles. It is getting darker all the time. And many of the most positive voices and — you know, when we’re just asking them that question, Joe, is thinking of, you know, who are among the best and most principled conservatives in America? Well one of them would be Dennis Prager who just wrote a piece about how we are at civil war. So in other words, we don’t just disagree with one another, we're -- we are waging this twilight struggle for civilization, and everything is at stake."