“We are right here on the precipice, right?” said Heilemann. “I think the phrase you were looking for is growing mad, and that’s it, right? We finally got here. As we walked away from the election, we kind of thought, okay, Trump’s madness, the king’s madness, is going get exhausted at some point when it starts to become clear that he played the whole rope, that all challenges failed, that all legal theories are false, that no one stood up with him. But it didn’t happen. “
He cited a column by David Ignatius on the need for continued concern while Trump and the GOP are still in power.
There is still danger, ”agreed Heilemann. – Genuine danger to come. And I think it’s a separate topic. On the political front, I mean – a separate and very serious topic. On the political front, I agree with the Wall Street Journal, and as you know, I’m not a fan of Moscow Mitch, but I think they are 100 percent right. “
He explained that Republicans should be favored in the second round in Georgia, but that Trump’s support for a $ 2,000 stimulus has put the Republican Party at risk.
“The reality now is, based on everything we’ve seen in terms of turnout, early voting, and you have Donald Trump and others there, creating a kind of chaos that is absolutely – we don’t know yet what the final count will be, obviously, but all they’re doing is working to decrease Republican participation, instead of increasing Republican participation, “said Heilemann. “And then I think that Wall Street Journal is exactly right. “
He continued: “We are growing mad, but we are also in a period when Trump’s madness can have a terrible consequence, a political consequence, for the Republican Party as it enters the Biden era with the potential loss of both those runoffs. in Georgia on January 5th. “
Wallace agreed, but said McConnell shouldn’t go unpunished and deserves a lot of blame.
“More than anything we’ve learned about Donald Trump, I think the lesson from these four years is that Donald Trump did not stage a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, as so many of us said in 2016, but that the Republican Party was an empty, bankrupt shell and unprincipled than before it was a big party when Donald Trump showed up, “said Heilemann.
Trump is not the cause, he explained, he is a symptom of a deeper “rot” in the GOP.
“And we are seeing this now in the most vivid way possible,” continued Heileman. “This post-election period, the number of Republicans willing to agree with Trump’s refusal to be part of the peaceful transition of power, his desire to continue to cling to power under any circumstances. That is what the column of Ignatius, about worrying signs that things are potentially happening in the Department of Defense, in other agencies … “
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The GOP was rotten before Trump – he just took the unprincipled shell left over
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