So, you found out Steve Schmidt is a Republican?
I have no idea what some of you assumed. When Trump began his reign, there were certain people in the GOP who opposed him from the start. A couple of others are Ana Navarro and Evan McMullin.
They have consistently harsh critics of Trump and scathing in their comments. I NEVER assumed they were suddnly going to change their long-held views on many policies and I doubt if they thought those of us on the left would either.
What was immediately clear to many of us even before the election was that Trump was going to try to run roughshod over the Constitution and impose his own views by circumventing the normal procedures set in place to deal with issues. He would do his best to become a dictator and do lasting damage to the US in any number of areas. That has been proven true and has been much worse than some imagined.
I was and am willing to work with Schmidt, Navarro and others to try to thwart him and use any method to defeat his proposals. He is a grave danger to democracy and we need every single person we can muster to oppose him. Lawd, even George Will openly said to vote for Democrats. If that doesn’t tell you how dangerous they think he is on every level, nothing will. In addition, they have gone after those assholes like that post turtle McConnell who aid Trump with their support of his methods.
I welcome the day when we can again fight with Schmidt and others about policy 24/7 without the worry that the country will come apart. We feel like that at times during our fighting with them, but it has become crystal clear that Trump is on a completely different and scarier level than anybody we have ever encountered in office.
No I am not going to hold hands, sing Kumbaya, and blithely vote against everything I have worked for. I will make common cause with them to DEFEAT TRUMP AND HIS ENABLERS. We are never going to reach his 30% hard core moronic supporters. However, the presence of Schmidt and others who vocally and harshly condemn him can reach that crucial group who have or are changing their minds about him. The opposition to Trump by those who that group have respected and followed can make it easier for that crucial group to also not just change but to add their voices to resist him.
I say they are crucial because as I have stated, we need every person we can find to openly dump Trump. When it shakes out and hopefully we start bitching at them again we will be looking at the opposition composed of the usual asshole attitudes we have always dealt with but who are not openly committing treason without a second thought.
I never in my life thought I would be fighting alonside of a Schmidt or a Navarro because we ae facing a clear and present danger that makes it easy to see who really believes in this country’s founding principles.
So, you can go about your business as if it is the usual bs we ae dealing with and pretend it’s just a SNAFU. It is so much worse than that. I really don’t expect for anything to appear to be normal again in my lifetime. I do hope I can feel that we are on the right path again and trying to undo the damage caused by Trump.
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....a republican. 
..... and we're all free to express them. I don't think he will ever return the republican party for the simple fact that it will never again be the republican party he believed in, which is just another opinion.
