Moyers -- A Feral Trump Leads the Feral Right. And Vice Versa.
Bill Moyers talks to historian Rick Perlstein about Trump’s conquest of the GOP.
>"Moyers: So Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker gave up, and others, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, gave in. And here are the headlines in The New York Times:
CRITICS GIVE WAY AS THE GOP TILT TO TRUMP’S ORBIT
Acquiesce or Go Home
Party With Less and Less Room for Older Breed Of Conservative
In other words, Donald Trump owns the Republican Party.
Rick Perlstein: That’s right. It’s like Ivory soap, “99 and 1/100 percent pure,” remember? Oh, the apostasy of Jeff Flake. The senator from Arizona gives this very histrionic speech about how Trump has introduced evasion and demagoguery and all these awful things into the Republican Party — and then announces he’s quitting. He’s really saying, “I’m not going to fight it. I’m going to surrender to it.” Remember, he’s voted 90 percent of the time with the Trump/Republican agenda. And then later that day, he and the other brave, bold critic in the Republican establishment, Sen. Bob Corker, both voted to end the rule that would have allowed people to sue banks and credit card companies that rip them off. They get to have their cake and eat it, too. They basically make a material contribution to the very damage to the body politic in the afternoon that they decry in the morning."<
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