IDP Representative Adam Kinzinger says Republicans are preferred as ‘steady diet of fear’

Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said Friday that he was prepared to give up his career by pushing back the “brainwashing” of the GOP under former President Donald Trump.

Kinzinger, one of the ten Republicans in the House who voted to accuse Trump, told HBO host Bill Maher that he finally wants a Republican Party that is “not crazy” and a “productive member” of a government that has basically two parties. ‘ Although Maher disputed this, it had not happened in decades, Kinzinger said his party should stop voting ‘on a fixed diet of fear’. Kinzinger said GOP candidates across the U.S. have intensified threats of ‘socialism’ and absurd allegations of imminent liberal attacks to raise funds and rise above Republican rivals. He described the rioters of the US Capitol on January 6 as a force of ‘pure evil’ and an ominous sign of the future of the GOP.

“We learned, and I can only speak as a Republican looking at the Republicans, we learned that you can opt for a steady diet of fear,” Kinzinger said. Real time with Bill Maher Friday night. ‘So, every fundraising email is’ send me five dollars to make sure Nancy Pelosi does not destroy your family. ‘And everything is this diet of fear. And finally, it is no wonder that democracy is really doing harm. ‘

“It’s just fear … if you think it’s your terminal job or you’re going to go higher, you live in fear of anything to do,” Kinzinger said, emphasizing the desperate efforts of many lawmakers to do so at all costs. stay.

Kinzinger said that “tribal” politics across the country allow people to be elected who have an “inability to make independent decisions now”, which helps explain why angry Trump supporters scolded him for voting for to accuse the former president. He said friends and family had sent a “second certified letter” in which they again believed he had embraced the devil and turned away from Trump, which they said was the “return of [Jesus Christ]. “

“The level of brainwashing among some people … they really believe they are fighting the forces of evil just because the person they thought was the Second Coming [of Jesus Christ] lost by accident, ”Kinzinger told Maher.

Kinzinger said the satanic accusations of fanatical Trump supporters have opened his eyes to the fact that Trump is driving “these people” crazy for believing that they are somehow doing a service to this country. “He noted that his attitude as a US military veteran enabled him to ‘be willing to give up his career’ to stand for Trump’s hijacking of the party.

Kinzinger recently wrote an op-ed The Washington Post which encouraged Republican senators to convict Trump in order to reinstate accountability.

“It’s not a waste of time. It’s a matter of accountability. If the IDP does not take a stand, the chaos of the past few months and the past four years can return quickly. The future of our party and our country depends on it. to confront what happened – so it does not happen again, ‘Kinzinger wrote, urging at least 17 Republicans to consider with Democrats the conviction of Trump.

Trump won Kinzinger’s 16th Congressional district in the western suburbs of Chicago with 57 percent of the vote in the November 2020 election. Kinzinger won his general election, meaning his current term ends in January 2023. He first held office in 2013.

Kinzinger calls his political action committee ‘Country First’, which he describes as an attempt to get the Republican Party back on conservative principles.

Newsweek issued Saturday morning at Kinzinger’s office for additional remarks.