In Case You Missed It: Steve Schmidt Calls out Republicans for “Repeatedly Put[ting] Their Party Ahead of their Country”
On Meet the Press today, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt closed out a political panel with a scathing review of Congressional Republicans’ handling of Donald Trump over the past year, and how it reflects poorly on their character and judgment.
As Schmidt indicates, the disgrace of Donald Trump’s candidacy is not contained to the nominee himself, but also the House Republicans who have stood by his side through every racist, sexist and bigoted attack. Any move to flee from Trump now is too late, and will be seen for what it is: a desperate attempt at self-preservation as Election Day gets too close for comfort.
“What this exposes, though, is much deeper and it goes to the Republican Party as an institution. This, this candidacy, the magnitude of its disgrace to the country is almost impossible, I think, to articulate.
“But it has exposed the intellectual rot in the Republican Party. It has exposed at a massive level the hypocrisy, the modern day money changers in the temple like Jerry Falwell Jr.
“ And so, this party, to go forward and to represent a conservative vision for America, has great soul searching to do.
“And what we’ve seen and the danger for all of these candidates is over the course of the last year, these, these candidates who have repeatedly put their party ahead of their country, denying what is so obviously clear to anybody who’s watching about his complete and total manifest unfitness for this office.