Michael Steele

This isn’t gun control, people. We’re so past gun control. There are 400 million guns in this country with foreign nation of 310 -- 20 million people.

No, I thought you laid out the current state of play here very concisely, it is really about that crucible moment for the country, that they seemingly are more engaged around what occurred in Texas than perhaps they may have been at other…

It sucks like it does everywhere else around the country to be rather blunt about it.

I think Josh Shapiro is a terrific candidate who will steamroll the election.

Madison, obviously turn the corner on them. And this leads me to point number two, that the reality for him was he thought that he had a much longer runway to go out and behave and say, in a way, say things in a way that wouldn`t get him…

You`re absolutely right. And you know, I think my friends on this panel know having been in the trenches with them that when you got -- you got a good candidate and a good message, you set yourself on a glide path that makes it much more…

The establishment, the political leadership in the Republican Party can`t stand up against crazy.

This is just the first iteration of it that you see inside the GOP.

The old dog still knows how to hunt, baby. I know a lot of you went out there and sort of gerrymandered yourself a little foo-foo puppy and sort of, you know, genetically created a little dog you think is going to politically satisfy what…

If Americans want to change that claptrap, that noise from that hard ugly right, then you need to put in some people who are not going to succumb to it and promote it.

Do you want to give the power back to the guys and the gals who almost overthrew the government, who claimed that there -- that this -- there was no, you know, legitimate election taking place that it was fraud?

Yes, it is. And you make an excellent point there. Because the reality still remains that if you`re going to go into this space, how you frame this, it matters.

Let me tell you, Mitch McConnell is not a happy camper. This was not the conversation he wanted Republicans to have over the summer and going into the fall.

Sure. I mean, he`s going to have to work it, though. I mean, the -- you know, it doesn`t translate one for one from a primary -- from a Republican primary, which largely has hard, right, Senator, right, sometimes voters. So he`s going to…

Yes, no, it is where the party is right now. And there are a whole bunch of those who were endorsed by Trump in Ohio alone, let alone what we`re going to see roll out over the course of the spring and summer into August in these primaries…

They saw a problem and not a voting bloc, but then, subsequent leaders weeks later, they`ve tried to leverage that problem into a voting bloc.

Which smoke does this gun have to admit before there are consequences?

I mean, so this part of it is frustrating for a lot of Americans who want to know exactly what happened, but more importantly, whose fingers were on the triggers that cause Americans to riot against its government.

The hellscape is created. You think what we went through the last four years, particularly the post-election period, was bad, you’re looking at retributive -- a retributive governance, where heads will roll.

This stuff doesn’t just go away because you don’t think it’s not going to happen.

You will look to pay a price.

They had this deep-seated terror about modern -- modernity and change.

They believe that they can control it.

McConnell is sitting there looking at what`s coming down the pike gun. We can`t win with this, y`all. We can`t.

This just sucks all around. We watched this. We watched people create, engage in criminal activity.