“We’re here in the abyss, are we?” said Heilemann. “It’s like – I think the expression you may have been looking for is the crescendo of madness, and that’s it, isn ‘t it? We finally got here. As we got further away from the election, we thought, okay, Trump’s madness, the king’s madness, will exhaust itself at some point when it becomes clear that he has played all the strings, that all the challenges have failed, that all the legal theories have gone astray, that no one is standing “But it did not happen.”
He quoted a column by David Ignatius on the need for continued concern while Trump and the GOP are still in power.
There is still danger, “Heilemann agrees.” Real danger ahead. And I think this is a separate topic. On a political front, I mean – a separate and very serious subject. On the political front, I agree with the Wall Street Journal, and as you know not even a fan of Moscow Mitch, but I think they are 100 percent right. ‘
He explained that Republicans should benefit from the run-off in Georgia, but that Trump’s support for a $ 2,000 stimulus puts the IDP in the hot spot.
‘The reality is now, based on everything we’ve seen in terms of the turnout, the early vote, and you have Donald Trump and others there under some kind of chaos that is absolute – what we do not know yet is the final score ‘s going to be, of course, but everything they do is suppressing the Republican turnout, rather than improving the Republican turnout, ‘Heilemann said. ‘And so I think the Wall Street Journal is exactly right. ‘
He went on to say, “We are engaged in the crescendo of madness, but we are also in a period in which Trump’s madness could have serious consequences, a political consequence, for the Republican Party, as it marks the Biden era. penetrate and possibly both lose that runoff in Georgia on January 5th. ‘
Wallace agrees, but says McConnell should not come down shot-free and earn a lot of debt.
‘More than anything we’ve learned about Donald Trump, I think the lesson of these four years is that Donald Trump did not institute a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, as so many of us said in 2016, but that “the Republican Party is a hollow, bankrupt, unprincipled shell of what used to be a big party when Donald Trump came together,” Heilemann said.
Trump is not the cause, he explained, he is a symptom of a deeper “rot” in the IDP.
“And we see it in the most vivid way possible,” Heileman continues. “This period in the post-election, the number of Republicans willing to accept Trump’s refusal to be part of the peaceful transition of power, his desire to remain in power under any circumstances. That’s what the Ignatius- column, about worrying signs that things may be going on in the Department of Defense, in other agencies … “
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The GOP was rotten before Trump – he just took over the unprincipled shell that remained
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