‘It’s Getting Scary Up In Here’

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele on Tuesday lamented the current state of the GOP and its almost complete subservience to former President Donald Trump.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid suggested most Republicans have “given up the struggle” and are now “dealing with a fascist onslaught” by just getting on board. “Is there yet inside the Republican Party any hint of a willingness to fight this, anywhere?” she asked Steele.

“It is in quiet corners and that’s part of my frustration and the frustration of a number of us who are trying to elevate the conversation inside the house,” Steele replied. “Because the call is coming from inside the house, right? The horror that you are afraid of is there behind you in the closet down the hall and it’s no longer in the closet, it’s actually kind of roaming the halls and taking out members as they find them in various chambers and organizations and so forth.”

Steele said there were still Republican governors and House and Senate members who either assumed front-runner Trump will not be the Republican 2024 nominee, thought that if he does win the nomination then he’ll lose in the general election and that then Americans can “all go down the Yellow Brick Road together” and forget how bad things had become.

But all those assumptions are wrong, Steele argued.

“Everything about it is wrong. The idea of democracy has become a foreign concept,” he said. “It has become ‘other’ to them as an immigrant or migrant coming into the country or a transgender child. That’s how they’re seeing the world right now. And those of us who are still inside the house are like, ‘OK, I think we need to head to the front porch because it’s getting scary up in here.’”

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