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It used to be about -- all this high dollar donors and this organization was about cutting taxes and regulation, letting the chips fall where they may. Now the narrative is that something is being stolen from you, right? The big lie, the…
What Donald Trump did there was not simply a failure to condemn. It was to further a permission structure that violence in the face of your political grievance is now permissible.
Donald Trump has created a permission structure. He is the leader of today’s Republican Party, the loudest voice in the room, until somebody pushes him off the seat.
It is up to Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leaders to say no, that is not the direction of this party.
Donald Trump has created a permission structure of violent behavior within today`s Republican Party.
Members of Congress face threats fairly routinely. But I think it`s clear we`re seeing an escalation of that.
Democrats in the House have to realize this is unfortunately all on them, though it shouldn’t have to be.
The story of the United States is a story of diversity and immigration. Today’s Republicans don’t want you to believe that.
I think if you can take any analysis from what we’re watching in this evolution in Republican Ohio politics right now, it’s that look at where we’re going to, from Rob Portman now to J.D. Vance or Josh Mandel. And that tells you everything…
The Republican playbook in 22 is about culture wars and this idea of Replacement Theory, of critical race. This is all -- use the word racism. This is a racist Republican platform.
The thread that keeps all that together is the demonization of the left and that Democrats are the evil actors that are going to disrupt those wedge issues for you.
Republicans don’t care about your public health, they don’t actually care about election integrity, they don’t actually care about the abortion issue. What they care about is winning elections.
Americans who don’t believe in conspiracies don’t have freedoms to vote for Republicans anymore, and Republicans who are not conspiracy theorists don’t have freedoms to enjoy living in their own party.
the difference of this moment, of this generation and generations past, right? In generations past, we could accept personal freedom as well as sacrifice for the greater public good, actually out of narratives of patriotism that we would…
Donald Trump himself is delusional, he's dishonest and he's a fraud. Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, they're just political scoundrels. They actually do. They know the truth. They're engaging in the lie for their own political viability, for…
It is performative politics and it is geared towards '22. It is geared towards Ron DeSantis` presidential run. And Chris, I will say one thing about Ron DeSantis` presidential run. Ron DeSantis is more successfully executing Trumpism than…
Yes, Chris, look, each week brings to continue to affirmation that the Republican playbook for 2022 will be culture wars. It will be a war on education. It`ll be descriptions of critical race theory. It will be issues around immigration…
What they are doing is turning their head to our racist past. They’re turning a blind eye to it.
When Liz Cheney says that Kevin McCarthy should testify, it`s not just because Liz Cheney wants to get to the truth. Liz Cheney has said that McCarthy won`t be speaker, which tells me that Liz Cheney knows that Kevin McCarthy knows…
It is lunacy for Republicans to suggest it. And we should call them out every step of the way.
The effort going into January 6th, the big lie that Donald Trump led, that Kevin McCarthy amplified and every other Republican that involved themselves in this was an attempt to undo our democracy and undermined our republic.
Well, I think we learned a lot about the heart of the Republican Party in the first four years. And I think that`s the most telling lesson of the Trump era.
Donald Trump used Matt Gaetz for four years for his own purposes and when Matt Gaetz needs Donald Trump, Donald Trump has no interest in Matt Gaetz.
Brian Kemp is a liar, and Brian Kemp tried to play a partisan card that you just dismantled for your audience tonight.
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