I’d reference that old song, “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To,” but it’s not Steve Schmidt’s party. Like a lot of intellectually honest people the Republican party doesn’t hold the allure it once did for Schmidt. The difference between the GOP and the Democrats right now is like the difference between a crack in the sidewalk and the Grand Canyon. It’s not about ideology and policy, it’s far more existential than that.
For example, yesterday Lindsey Graham went waaaaay over the top. He crossed lines I never thought he would cross. He told Sean Hannity, “Well, Sean, any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.” He made insane references to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and said that, in D.C., Trump could be convicted of that.
Now the reason this is flat out awful is because Graham is a sitting United States senator and he just illegitimized the American justice system. Think about that. Graham actually said that the jury system in Washington, D.C. is not legitimate. And if it’s not legitimate there, why would it be in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, name some place. When a sitting senator makes a direct attack on our system of government, our laws and our basic institutions, we are in deep trouble.
Lies are the new normal in politics. Kevin McCarthy has lied so much I doubt he remembers the truth. Same with Graham. Same with so many.
Where we are now, is in a place I never could have conceived of, where the Republican party has people in it who are anti-American. The party is terribly broken.
Trump exists to burn down our norms and set a torch to the constitution. He’s made that emphatically clear.
Another NYT/Sienna poll came out today. It showed Trump with a 10% drop from 54% to 44% and Ron DeSantis picked up three points, to rise to 20%. Everybody else in the primary race is in single digits.
Neither Trump nor DeSantis are any kind of leader.
The GOP is in free fall. We need two functioning parties and we’ve got one, so the only legitimate course of action, to preserve America, is to keep the Democratic president in office for a second term and hope and pray that a combination of the rule of law and some kind of awakening, however late, on the part of Republicans, frees them from the thrall of Donald Trump and allows them to regroup and become a functioning party again.
I don’t think it’s going to happen overnight, but happen it must. Because if the fragmented and trashed GOP of today somehow gets back in the White House, or even continues to lead in the House, and God forbid the Senate, we are looking at a fascist takeover. That is not hyperbole, that is common sense, based on the facts we’re seeing daily.
GQP are continuing to “work” on their RW Nazi/Fascist takeover of Amerika. as we speak! Everyone must VOTE Blue, our lives depend on it!
Steve Schmidt is absolutely correct in his assessment of America’s existential crisis. We must have a coalition of all decent people united in supporting the Democratic Party against the GOP or we will have a fascist dictatorship. It’s that simple, which also means that any third party effort now would help the GOP and therefore be suicidal for American democracy.
Spot on. The “third party” namely No Labels, worries me. That’s because it’s not a third party, it’s a dark money branch of the GQP, whose sole reason is to bleed votes away from Biden and get Trump back in office.
What will save America is electing Democratic governance, with policies based on facts and truth and not based on mere belief or fantasy, for the next twenty years at least.
Or until the other side decides to base their policies on the same basis.
Steve Schmidt was promoting a third party the other day. Has he backed off that tack?
Which one did he promote? This is news.