The Establishments war on Donald Trump
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Title: ‘The Party of Trump Must Be Obliterated. Annihilated. Destroyed’
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Rolling Stone
URL Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/politi ... -annihilated-destroyed-667008/
Published: Jul 4, 2018
Author: Andy Kroll
Post Date: 2018-07-04 13:58:22 by Willie Green
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Views: 2638
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WASHINGTON – Steve Schmidt has worked at the highest levels of Republican politics. He helped run George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign and oversaw the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. He led Sen. John McCain’s ’08 presidential bid and helped introduce Sarah Palin to the world. The American Association of Political Consultants once named him its “GOP Campaign Manager of the Year.” But today, Schmidt is finished with the Republican Party. He renounced his membership last week in a series of withering tweets that quickly went viral. Under Trump, he wrote, the party had become “corrupt, indecent, and immoral.” With the exception of a select few, the GOP was “filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders.” He pointed to the Trump administration’s family separation policy and use of detention centers for young immigrant children – “internment camps for babies” – and the refusal of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to repudiate the president. 29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump. — Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018 In the days since, Schmidt’s former party brethren appear to have confirmed his prognosis. First, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tweeted an image of five heavily tattooed Hispanic-looking men – ostensibly gang members – with the message: “Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House.” Huckabee’s tweet was roundly criticized as bigoted and xenophobic. (He stiff-armed these accusations.) On Sunday, David Bossie, a veteran conservative activist who was Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016, told a black panelist on Fox News that he was “out of his cotton-picking mind.” (Bossie later apologized.) These weren’t the dog whistles of yore; this was plain-as-day bigotry and racism. Schmidt’s decision to cut ties with Republicans didn’t exactly come as a surprise. He has for years served as one of the GOP’s staunchest critics from within. (You’ve probably seen him on MSNBC as the network’s go-to talking head for diagnosing the ills of the modern Republican Party.) Still, his perspective is a unique one, the star consultant who swore off his party and sounded the alarm on his way out. I spoke with Schmidt on Monday afternoon. Why did you finally decide to leave the Republican Party? When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party had every chance to put a check on his vile personal conduct, his administration’s outlandish corruption, his fetishizing and affinity for autocrats around the world and his undermining of the western alliance. How did it get to this point? The Republican Party remained the party of the North and the West culturally in this country until the Civil Rights Act. On the day that LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act, he says, “I feel like I’ve lost the South.” Over time, beginning with Richard Nixon in ’68, with the Southern Strategy and the appeal to white working-class Southerners, the Republican Party is uprooted from the North and the West. That is the party I was born into. This present strain of know-nothingism has long been in the party’s DNA. So the party’s evolution is as much cultural as it is political or ideological. What you’ve seen is this rapid devolution over the last 18 months of the Republican Party becoming a white ethno-nationalist party, a blood-and-soil party that is protectionist, isolationist, that is rooted in resentment and grievance. The Republican Party isn’t going to die because of Trump. It’s going to die because of Ryan and McConnell. You’re now left with one political party in support of liberal democracy. Would these same forces have reared their heads if we’d had a Marco Rubio or a Hillary Clinton presidency? President Obama said he draws a straight line from McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate to Trump’s election. You helped McCain pick Palin in 2008. Did she usher in the Trump era? Can the Republican Party be saved? I don’t view it so much differently than I view a forest fire. A forest fire is part of a natural cycle of the forest. The forest burns, and through its burning and destruction, it is regenerated and made healthy again. For the Republican Party and the conservative movement, with its rot, its corruption, its indecency … before there can be any talk of restoration, there must be a season of burning.
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I think it’s fair to say I’ve been estranged from the party on a number of issues going back to my advocacy and support for marriage equality in 2009 and then my opposition to the populism and the nationalism that we’ve seen. The reality that I’ve come to is that the party stands at an hour at which it is irredeemable, where it has died and bled out because of the cowardice and fecklessness of its leaders.
I think it’s important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the Whig Party, specifically around the question of race and the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
This cancer has always been there. This dormant cancer. But it has become fully embraced in this moment. We’re seeing at this moment a president of the United States do five things. He is using mass rallies that are fueled by constant lying to incite fervor and devotion in his political base. The second thing we see him do is to affix blame for every problem in the world. Many of them are complex, not so different from the issues faced at the end of Agrarian age and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We see him attack minority populations with words like “invade” and “infest.” The third thing he does is a create a shared sense of victimization caused by the scapegoated populations. This is the high act of Trumpism: From Trump to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham, everyone is a victim. The fourth thing he does is he alleges conspiracy by nefarious and unseen hidden forces – the “deep state.” And the fifth thing is the assertion that “I am the law, that I am above it.” He just said immigrants don’t get a hearing; they don’t get a court representation.
The two parties for a long time were not homogeneous ideologically. There were plenty of conservatives in the Democratic Party, and there were no small number of liberals in the Republican Party. Now, culturally, we’re in thrall to theocratic crackpots like Mike Huckabee and Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, where you’re able to justify the candidacy of a Roy Moore because you want to keep the Senate seat. The theocracy and crackpot sewer conservatism has taken over.
It’s always been there. It’s been there from the Know-Nothing movement in the 1840s. The effect of Trump is the justification it gives to people who are angered by Trump to act more like Trump. To debase themselves into opposition. If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, “I’m not going to do one thing that makes it worse.” Because making it worse helps Trump. Part of the damage of this era is his debasement and his purposeful divisions. That’s unique in all of history.
I think people miss the point on Sarah Palin. She’s not the cause. She’s a symptom. The sickness is how people reacted to her after you knew what she was. There’s never been an era absent of demagogues. What there hasn’t been is an ability of those demagogues to gain actual power – certainly not at a national level. We threw the ball down the field [by picking Palin] and it didn’t work. I had no idea what she was and didn’t know until a couple days after we picked her. But by the time the race ends, everybody knows. Yet what happens? Palin gets a million-dollar TV contract on Fox.
If the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan is to be redeemed and resurrected, then the party of Trump must be obliterated. Annihilated. Destroyed. And all of the collaborators, the complicit enablers, the school of cowards, need to go down. Maybe something can regenerate from that.
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
Which "Party" - the one riding in the Log Cabin Trojan wooden RINOcerous that can't/won't answer a simple question... ESAD and FOAD both mean if you do, you will. Bon appetite!
Thanks for a revealing story, Willie. Among several question posed to Steve Schmidt -- who along with that other fake "Republican adviser" and Trojan horse Leftist Nicole Wallace -- helped sabotage and undermine Sarah Palin back during McStain's fake run for President against the Leftist Fake "American" 0bama: (Schmidt's #1 Opening Answer reveals quite a bit): "I think it’s fair to say I’ve been estranged from the party [and from sanity] on a number of issues going back to my advocacy and support for [QUEER] marriage equality in 2009..." Here's another revealing question AND answer from Steve Schmidt: Schmidt Answer: I think people miss the point on Sarah Palin. She’s not the cause. She’s [Sarah Palin] a symptom. The sickness is how people reacted to her after you knew what she was. Look -- IF Schmidt had anything to do with choosing Palin as VP, it was (a, a bad political miscalculation on his part; Palin ALMOST shoved McStain over the finish line! Despite that obvious set up of Palin's interview with Perky Katie and dopey supposed "GOTCHA!" question: "WHAT DO YOU READ??") GOT OUR ANSWERS on why he hated Sarah Palin so much and why he sabotaged Palin and help 0bama to be President. What a disgusting crap-weasel. Schmidt was NEVER a "Republican" but a plant. Steve Schmidt is a Militant Queer. Spiteful, undermining Truth FOR Lies was his stock & trade. Same of Nicole Wallace. Given recent revelations of Deep State shenanigans, it sure seems as though Schmidt and Wallace were given info on Sarah Palin while "inside" info was shared with the MSM at the time. In retrospect, the Deep State appears to have colluded with MSM and Hollywood (as exactly had happened to Trump) to trash and smear Palin and create a cartoon caricature. Only this mob-tactic FAILED with Trump. YOUR RESPECTIVE RECOLLECTION AND THOUGHTS ON THIS STORY, THE PAST, AND A SUPPOSED "CANDID" STEVE SCHMIDT, GENTLEMEN?
Can you kindly articulate EXACTLY what you mean here without the graphics? You DO understand this thread is about Fake Republican Adviser/Saboteur, Steve Schmidt, right? Any opinion on HIM, his role as a Trojan Horse troll in the 2008 Election against 0bama? OR his treasonous tactics?
Another NeverTrumper throws a childish fit! Oh my!/s For one all nonsense about child separation started long before Trump was in office. All Turmp did is implement zero tolerance where under Obummer who just let in everyone with a child as he sent his cronies down to central and south America to tell them if they have a child they will not be turned away at the border. Do we bitch when a family man is arrested and is separated from his children? No. This is political bs from the demoncrap party!
He is a wacked out. Must be a nevertrumper. Trump has kicked their arses all over the place. They thought Trump would be removed from office by now and hilary put in his place by the PTB and all us peons would just sit back and let them.
LIAR. [Trump] create a shared sense of victimization caused by the scapegoated populations. So Steve Schmidt considers the enforcement of Immigration Law an "attack"? His Fascist-Militant Queer slip is showing. American IS being "invaded" AND "infested". Why don't Leftist America-Hating liars and phony hypocrites like Steve Schmidt put their money where their big mouths are and invite them INTO THEIR OWN HOMES?? Shmidt and Leftists HATE that Trump IDENTIFIES thieves of American sovereignty by Demo: Uninvited Muzzie Jihadists, uninvited MS-13 terrorists, and the rest of the ongoing uninvited army of Illegal Invaders of Third Worlder flotsam. Donald Trump is the Charles Martel of America. Schmidt: This is the high act of Trumpism: From Trump to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham, everyone is a victim. The fourth thing he does is he alleges conspiracy by nefarious and unseen hidden forces – the “deep state.” And the fifth thing is the assertion that “I am the law, that I am above it.” He just said immigrants don’t get a hearing; they don’t get a court representation. Schmidt needs a fair "HEARING". THEN fair SENTENCING". (What's the law say about Libel, Slander...Sabotage, Seditionists and Traitors again??)
Good luck getting on the liberal talk shows now. Quitting the Republican Party makes you just another liberal. The talk shows want RINOs -- they think it makes their biased reporting appear balanced. ("Even Republicans agree with us!")
Schmidt was and is a fascist, a NEVER-AMERICANIST". He hates the US, heterosexual NORMAL people, and OUR liberty. Trump has kicked their arses all over the place. Yup. The beatings will continue until moral improves. OR, Leftists commit hiri-kiri enmass or leave the planet by their own volition. They thought Trump would be removed from office by now and hilary put in his place by the PTB and all us peons would just sit back and let them. That's their mind-set it in a nutsell. They are STILL IN SHOCKED. They thought by now Hitlery would by now be rounding us up. And here we are laughing at them.
EXACTLY. And they LOVE the fake "Republicans" who defected because of the "mean, heartless" Trump. It took MSNBC all of 2 seconds to hire Steve Schmidt co-saboteur Nicole Wallace to host one of their loony Leftist Propaganda programs.
And guess what? There's now a ongoing MASSIVE DEFECTION from the Dem-Commie Party. Because they keep on "showing off" their derangement and insanity. HA!!
Just saying this doesn't make it so. As bad as the GOP has been it still a thousand times better than the Demoncrap party. But that's not really saying something sense the Demoncrap party is as bad as it gets. Talk about corrupt(Hillary,Obama,Holder,IRS,Benghazi,Russian ties etc), indecent(Clinton, Wenner, all of the Demoncrap donors) and immoral (too many to name). As the bible says why worry about the speck in someone elses eye when you have a tree stuck in yours!
When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party had every chance to put a check on his vile personal conduct, his administration’s outlandish corruption, his fetishizing and affinity for autocrats around the world and his undermining of the western alliance. Schmidt, Bush, McCain et al. are neo-cons. I have long said that neo-cons are nothing more than rebadged liberals who infiltrated the Republican/conservative ranks to carve it up from the inside. The neo-con movement originated among New York socialists. With Trump exposing them as the usless liberal douchebags that they are, they have become an endangered species, acting out their frustrations with a series of tiny-fisted tantrums. They have discovered they are no match for the force of nature known as President Donald J. Trump. Immigrants get a hearing, criminal illegal aliens caught illegally jumping the border between authorized border crossing points do not have the same rights as lawful immigrants. Steve Schmidt has shown his ability to engage in the verbal pollution of the radical socialist liberal Democrats. He has finally gone home. Radical socialist liberal Democrats would use mass rallies to incite fervor and devotion in their political base, but they have no leader to headline the event, and an empty stadium would not make a mass rally. Affixing blame to the radical socialist liberal Democrats for many of the problems in the U.S. and the world is an acknowledgement of fact, like acknowledging that infection causes disease. Illegal aliens jumping the border illegally between authorized border crossings deserve to be attacked for their unlawful, criminal behavior. President Trump does point out that Black unemployment is at its lowest point in recorded history, and that Black employment has been the victim of the invading horde of illegal cheap illegal labor streaming across the southern border. Unlike the radical socialist liberal Democrats, President Trump chose to do something about it. From Sarah Sanders to Pam Bondi to Tomi Lahren to Scott Pruitt, conservative Republicans have endured public attacks by screaming radical socialist liberal Democrat nutbags. President Donald J. Trump does not merely allege a conspiracy by nefarious forces in hiding, he has been rendering them known and visible. For example take the radical liberal socialist Democrat douchebags within the FBI and DOJ who conspired to invent the Russian "collusion" fairy tale and foist it upo the American people. They still have trouble citing the criminal statute for collusion. No, Ryan the RINO is leaving before he is evicted. He can join Steve Schmidt where he belongs. McConnell will soon have another conservative Supreme Court nominee to shepherd through the nomination process. The Republicans/conservatives, led by President Trump are WINNING. Radical socialist liberal Democrat heads are exploding and the nutbags are acting out. The point was that McCain/Schmidt chose a virtually unknown, unqualified VP candidate in order to gain attention, and they gained too much attention for the wrong reasons. Obliterating, annihilating and destroying the radical socialist liberal Democrat nutbag party should be completed by President Donald Trump first.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass as you leave,Bubba. You are all ass,and it does no one any good to confuse a door. You would have done the world a public service if you had left before you helped the Bush Crime Family gain control,you globalist SOB!
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Nah, this asshole and those like him can shove their braindead ramblings up their baracks. MAGA
Enjoyed your summary...Excellent.
Damn, missed that one.. Gotta be one of the most hilarious 'footinmouth' incidents in tv history.. Was it on the Chris Wallace show? -- ,Who was the black panelist?
Joel Payne
#2. To: Tooconservative, sneakypete, nolu chan, CZ82, ALL (#0)
OPENING QUESTION"Why did you finally decide to leave the Republican Party?"
Q: "....McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate to Trump’s election. You helped McCain pick Palin in 2008. Did she usher in the Trump era?
#3. To: VxH (#1)
#4. To: Willie Green (#0)
#5. To: Liberator, VxH (#3)
#6. To: Willie Green (#0)
We see him [President Donald Trump] attack minority populations with words like “invade” and “infest.”
#7. To: Willie Green (#0)
#8. To: Justified (#5)
Must be a nevertrumper.
#9. To: misterwhite (#7)
The talk shows want RINOs -- they think it makes their biased reporting appear balanced. ("Even Republicans agree with us!")
#10. To: Justified (#4)
This is political bs from the demoncrap party!
#11. To: Willie Green (#0)
the party had become “corrupt, indecent, and immoral.”
#12. To: Willie Green (#0)
I think it’s fair to say I’ve been estranged from the party on a number of issues going back to my advocacy and support for marriage equality in 2009 and then my opposition to the populism and the nationalism that we’ve seen. The reality that I’ve come to is that the party stands at an hour at which it is irredeemable, where it has died and bled out because of the cowardice and fecklessness of its leaders.
We’re seeing at this moment a president of the United States do five things. He is using mass rallies that are fueled by constant lying to incite fervor and devotion in his political base. The second thing we see him do is to affix blame for every problem in the world. Many of them are complex, not so different from the issues faced at the end of Agrarian age and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We see him attack minority populations with words like “invade” and “infest.” The third thing he does is a create a shared sense of victimization caused by the scapegoated populations. This is the high act of Trumpism: From Trump to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham, everyone is a victim. The fourth thing he does is he alleges conspiracy by nefarious and unseen hidden forces – the “deep state.” And the fifth thing is the assertion that “I am the law, that I am above it.” He just said immigrants don’t get a hearing; they don’t get a court representation.
The Republican Party isn’t going to die because of Trump. It’s going to die because of Ryan and McConnell.
I think people miss the point on Sarah Palin. She’s not the cause. She’s a symptom.
If the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan is to be redeemed and resurrected, then the party of Trump must be obliterated. Annihilated. Destroyed.
#13. To: Willie Green (#0)
#14. To: Willie Green (#0)
#15. To: nolu chan (#12)
#16. To: Willie Green, Y'ALL (#0)
On Sunday, David Bossie, a veteran conservative activist who was Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016, told a black panelist on Fox News that he was “out of his cotton-picking mind.” (Bossie later apologized.)
#17. To: tpaine (#16)
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