Ezra Klein, on the GOP and the threat of nuclear war…

“I keep having this thought: that if there was a nuclear exchange and three million people died — and future historians are like, “why did you — you American in 2017, do nothing, while this guy was tweeting “Rocket Man” provocations at the single most irrational leader in the world (except for himself).”

“What warning did you need that you didn’t have? All of you were talking about this. The Republican party knew. I’ve had Republican aides say if we escape a nuclear war and get Gorsuch in, we’ll count this one as a win.”

— Ezra Klein, from The Ezra Klein Show, in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Quote starts at the 59-minute mark, when Klein talks about a forthcoming piece he’s writing about the possibility of a Trump impeachment.

(From 20171010, the same day “University of Hawaii Students Warned About Possible North Korea Nuclear Attack”)