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8:40Now PlayingAccording to a Never Trump Republican who has worked as a Republican consultant for decades, the damage that has been done to the Republican Party likely cannot be undone, and now it is time to get rid of that Party and start a new one. He also admits that Trump has not hijacked the Party, but instead he is the culmination of what the Party has become. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Democrats have been scratching their heads in recent months, trying to figure out what exactly is going on with these never Trump Republicans. You know, the folks over at the Lincoln project, you know, Washington, post columnist, Jennifer Rubin, what exactly is driving their hatred of not just Donald Trump, but now these folks are actually turning against conservatives themselves. Well, some of them are doing it for self serving purposes. Like the folks at the Lincoln project, they have to preserve whatever they can so that they can still push their conservative agenda. They can still get money from all these corporations. They are not our friends. Jennifer Rubin sure as hell is not our friend, but nobody at the Lincoln project is either, but believe it or not folks, there are some never Trump Republicans as pointed out in a recent article with Washington monthly. There are some of these never Trump Republicans that do get it.
That clearly are not out there for their own self serving purposes. And those are the folks that Washington monthly highlighted a, they pointed David corn from mother Jones, who recently spoke to one, never Trump conservative by the name of a Stuart Stevens who has spent his entire adult life as a Republican strategist and consultant. But he understands in a way that I have not seen any other Republican admit the damage that Donald Trump has done to his party. I have to read this, uh, from him. This is phenomenal. Uh, he huffed that the Republican party had not merely drifted away from its core positions as sometimes occurs with political parties, uh, fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries. We're all against that. Now you have to ask, does someone de abandoned deeply held beliefs in three or four years? No. It means you didn't ever hold them. He rejected the common view that Trump had hijacked the GOP. No. He explained the triumph of no nothing. Trumpism marked the culmination of an internal conflict that had existed for decades between the party's dark side and its professional eye.
Okay. That shows that this particular never Trump, Republican Stuart Stevens, that he gets it. That's the difference. That's what sets him apart from the Grifters. Jennifer Rubin is a grifter, the Lincoln project. They are Grifters Stuart Stevens. He understood it. And while I disagree with what he stands for as a conservative, I do not think those are real values or things that are of any importance. And some of them would downright hurt this country. I do appreciate and respect his honesty and his ability to look inside his party and see that it ain't just Donald Trump. And that is what we have been saying since day one of this administration, both here in these videos, uh, on America's lawyer, on ring of fire radio with, with Sam, we've said this repeatedly since the beginning, Trump didn't cause these problems within the Republican party, he is merely the result of the problems.
And if these Republicans understand that like Stevens does here, that shows they have some introspection that shows that they realize we've gone down a dark path. We didn't just get on this path with Trump. We were on it for a long time and we stumbled across him further down this path. And that's why Steven says it's time to blow it all up, get rid of it, tear it down, tear down the foundations of it and rebuild.
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