“We could be six days away from losing our rule of law. A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of. But if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.”
— MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, November 2, 2022.