It was the first time the four Republican outcasts — only Madrid is still a registered member of the party — had gathered in the same room together, and the conversation felt like a reunion, postmortem, and group-therapy session. They had all joined the Lincoln Project to begin with, Steslow said, because they believed that Trump posed a threat not just to the Republican Party but also to American democracy.
“He was repudiated,” George Conway said. “He just wasn’t repudiated by a section of the populace that will not look, listen, and speak about the things that many of them know to be true. And so that’s the problem.” But within days, McCarthy changed his tune. Appearing on Fox News, he mounted a tortured defense of the president’s actions on January 6th. “I was the first person to contact him when the riots” were happening, he said. “He didn’t see it. [How] he ended the call was saying — telling me, he’ll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that’s what he did, he put a video out later.”
“It’s all about the money, man,” Kinzinger tells me. Trump may be underwater in the polls, but his base adores him more than ever, and that’s where the money is. Trump’s 2020 campaign raised nearly $229 million in small-dollar donations. After the election, as Trump whipped his supporters into a frenzy over phony election-fraud claims, he raised another $170 million in a few months’ time. The Trump base, in other words, is a spigot of campaign cash. Rep.
Consider who replaced Liz Cheney as the chair of the House Republican Conference. Rep. Elise Stefanik was a pure product of the Republican establishment. Before she came to Congress, the Harvard graduate served in George W. Bush’s White House and worked for Paul Ryan during the 2012 presidential race. She once called herself a “big-tent Republican,” and the conservative Club for Growth said her voting record made her “very much a liberal.
I heard similar sentiments from other speakers. A podcaster and right-wing influencer named Eric Matheny said Americans had “witnessed . . . a hostile takeover. An election stolen right before our eyes.” The country, he went on, would not be “won with elections.” Change would happen only on a cultural level, within families, in the church, with neighbors talking to neighbors.
Apparently to the Rolling Stone “inciting an insurrection” is telling people to protest in an orderly and peaceful way. Why do you pretend to be a “news” source?
Yep. You’re still writing about him.
It’s either the Republican Party or we keep our democracy. We can’t have both. They are no longer compatible.
how many wars on democracy can there be ? ffs less hyperbole.
I don’t care
this music magazine? 🤔
Texasmeme2022 It's really hard to say, but lowering the bar that massive way compared to Bush and Palin was possible, besides the fact nobody has ever had enough fantasy to imagine it.
What happened to RS. It use to be such a respectable magazine.
gtconway3d
With help from rollingstone
morgfair If you want to know how we got into this mess and what we need to do about it, take the time to read this article. The GOP created a monster. Now that monster has destroyed its creator.
well it is nice that the you hired all the old writers from Mad.
gtconway3d Republican Party is dead, trump destroyed it
gtconway3d From now on, we must be active participants and defenders of democracy. If the majority of us want something, we must speak up and make that clear, and vote in every single election. An angry minority cannot, should not, and will not silence the will of the American people. 🇺🇸
gtconway3d I love the likeness of MTG!
gtconway3d Puttheminjail
bibbleco
gtconway3d Hopefully what is next for tRump and his family are long prison sentences and many, many Christmases in jail.
gtconway3d Don't forget his grip on the new media as they keep talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking.........about him.
gtconway3d Rep☭blicans are not worth saving, they are destroying it slowly with a thousand cuts. WAKE UP ! America or TЯ☭MP
gtconway3d think of trump as Jeff davis, the 1/6 Capitol attack as the shelling of Ft Sumpter, the trump flags in the pick-ups as the stars and bars and the deep south and plains states as trump's confederacy
gtconway3d NEVER!!!
gtconway3d He only has a grip because of all the knowledge he has on the dirty deeds they have done. He's using it.
Do they think that fat old man is going to live forever?
gtconway3d Brought to u by the greed and power of the Oligarchs and Right wing ruling elites able to buy up the MSM and Government.
So still with the trump stuff, eh? Nothing else to cover… notable albums or something current?
So…NOW WE CAN “STOP THIS WE THE “PEOPLE “ CAN AN WILL VOTE THESE “REPUBLICANS OUT “ Enough is ENOUGH.
SchwRoark I honestly anticipated that to read ‘but his grip on reality is…’. Oy. They hitched their wagons to a delusion, how utterly mortifying.
gtconway3d It’s fractured. People like my parents have abandoned the party.
Next they will try to erect statues of him…like those failed confederate generals just to send a message to the victors that “they aren’t going away quietly “
mattgaetz this is your party 😂
gtconway3d Flush the GOP down the toilet where it belongs. They will never be trusted again, nor should they be.
Trump has more grip on the liberal media who can’t live without him than any group of voters
Poor us. Poor them. 😐
Downright scary stuff!
Vote Democrat. Save our country.
Oh, Christ! The people working at Rolling Stone are all Trump supporters!
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