“We’re here on the precipice, aren’t we?” said Heilemann. “That’s like: I think the phrase you might have been looking for there is the crescendo of lunatics, and that’s it, right? We finally got here. As we drifted away from the election, we thought a little well, the madness of Trump, the king’s madness, will run out at some point when it begins to become clear that he has played all the strings, that all challenges have failed, that all legal theories are false, that no one stands with him, but it hasn’t happened. “
He quoted a column by David Ignatius about the need for continued concern as Trump and the Republican Party remain in power.
There is still danger, “Heilemann agreed.” The genuine danger that awaits us. And I think that’s a separate issue. On the political front, I mean: a separate and very serious issue. Politically, I agree with the Wall Street Journal, and as you know, I’m not a Moscow Mitch fan, but I think they’re absolutely right. “
He explained that Republicans should be favored in the second round in Georgia, but that Trump’s support for a $ 2,000 stimulus put the Republican Party in first place.
“The reality right now is, based on everything we’ve seen in terms of turnout, early voting, and you have Donald Trump and others creating a kind of chaos that’s absolutely absolute. Know what the final balance sheet will obviously be. but all they are doing is working to decrease Republican participation instead of improving Republican participation, ”Heilemann said. “And so I think Wall Street Journal is exactly correct “.
He continued: “We are in the crescendo of the insane, but we are also in a period where Trump’s madness can have a terrible, political consequence, for the Republican party as it enters the Biden era with the possibility of losing both of those runoffs in Georgia on January 5. “
Wallace agreed, but said McConnell should not be left free of Scotch and deserves a lot of blame.
“More than anything we’ve learned about Donald Trump, I think the lesson of those four years is that Donald Trump didn’t organize a hostile Republican inauguration, as so many of us said in 2016, but the Republican Party was an empty, failed, unprincipled skin of what was once a big party when Donald Trump came along, ”Heilemann said.
Trump is not the cause, he explained, which is a symptom of a deeper “rot” in the Republican Party.
“And we’re seeing it right now in the most vivid way possible,” Heileman continued. “This post-election period, the number of Republicans willing to accept Trump’s refusal to be part of the peaceful transition of power, his desire to continue to cling to power in no way. That’s what the Ignatius column is about. on the worrying signs that things are going on, potentially, in the Department of Defense, in other agencies … “
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The Republican Party was rotten before Trump: it only took over the unprincipled shell that remained
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