“We’re on the precipice here, right?” Heilemann said. “This is like – I think the phrase you might have been looking for is the culmination of crazy, and this is it, right? We’re finally here. As we got further away from the election, we kind of thought, okay, Trump’s madness, the king’s madness, will at some point exhaust itself when it becomes clear that he was in control, that all the challenges have failed, that all legal theories are fake, that no one stands next “Put him on. But it didn’t happen.”
He quoted a column by David Ignatius about the need for continued concern while Trump and the GOP are still in power.
There is still danger, “Heilemann agreed.” Real danger ahead. And I think that’s a separate topic. On the political front I mean – a separate and very serious topic. Politically, I agree on the Wall Street Journal, and as you know I’m not a fan of Moscow Mitch myself, but I think they are 100 percent right. “
He explained that Republicans should be favored in the Georgia run-off, but Trump’s support for a $ 2,000 stimulus put the GOP on the hot seat.
“The reality right now, based on everything we’ve seen in terms of turnout, is the early vote, and you’ve got Donald Trump and others down there creating some kind of chaos that’s absolutely – we don’t know what the final census will be, but all they do is work to reduce Republican turnout, rather than increase Republican turnout, ”said Heilemann. And so I think it is Wall Street Journal exactly right. “
He continued, “ We are in the crescendo of the madmen, but we are also in a period where Trump’s madness could have a serious consequence, a political consequence, for the Republican Party entering the Biden era and possibly both that outflows in Georgia on January 5. “
Wallace agreed, but said McConnell shouldn’t get out and earn a lot of debt.
“More than anything we’ve learned about Donald Trump, I think the lesson from these four years is that Donald Trump didn’t organize a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, as many of us said in 2016, but that the Republican Party did. was … a hollow, bankrupt, principle-less shell of what was a formerly large party when Donald Trump came along, “Heilemann said.
Trump is not the cause, he explained, he is a symptom of deeper “rot” in the GOP.
“And we see that in the most vivid way now,” Heileman continued. “This period in the post-election, the number of Republicans willing to accept Trump’s refusal to be part of the peaceful transfer of power, his desire to remain in power under all circumstances. Ignatius column is about disturbing signs that things may be going on at the Department of Defense, at other agencies … “
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The GOP was rotten for Trump – he just took over the principle-less shell that remained
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