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In reply to the discussion: What the likes of Steve Schmidt never acknowledge is their own complicity. [View all]meadowlander
(4,413 posts)they've just refused to back a losing horse. It was one of the two of them that only a few weeks ago was at *great* pains to make the point on Morning Joe (another Dem come lately with big ideas for our party) that Trump used to be a Democrat and that if they were allowed to run a *real* Republican like Nikki Haley or Mitt Romney they would be crushing all of the Democratic contenders by double digits.
Once Trump is gone, they will go back to being Republicans, spinning absurd bullshit on Fox News and claiming we should all "move on" because it was Trump that was the problem and not gerrymandering and vote suppression and the electoral college and Citizens United and cable media propaganda and the Tea Party and the white supremacist/Christofascist base of their party and their party's contempt generally for the rule of law as long as they can keep grasping on to power.
They will blame Trump on the Democrats and try to go back to business as usual instead of making any of the systemic changes that we obviously need to make in order to prevent this all from happening again in a few years. With an actually smart Republican who will let us slip into a fascist dictatorship without getting caught.
These people are entertaining and useful but never imagine for a second that they are on our side.