they will be solidified as a core part of the republican identity. that s why i think it is essential that the republicans pay a price at the ballot box for what they are doing and that s why i m urging as somebody who is a life long republican never voted for a democrat before i voted for hillary clinton in 2016, having said all that i m urging everybody to vote straight ticket democratic in november because i think it s imperative to get some checks and balances. the republican party has shown they will not stop donald trump s abuses of power, and that they will continue reimolding themselves in donald trump s image unless they understand there s a price to be paid at the ballot box. i think essentially the republican party as currently constituted needs to be destroyed and burned and maybe, maybe, maybe out of the ashes we can build up a more reasonable center right party which is something this country needs. max stay with us. still ahead one message that
we have the conservative majority for the first time in our lifetime. regulatory reform. tax cuts. it seems to me that list that they can take to votes in the mid-terms is growing by the day and kavanaugh, well that s just sort of the cherry on top. joe, certainly it s important to have passed this court pick. courts after core reason for a wavering republican who doesn t like trump to be for trump or be happy he s president. this court thing is a reminder of the value of having the white house in republican hands. so that s important. but, look, i will also say this reminds me a bit of 2016. closing weeks of election. people in one party who are sour on their nominee will start coming home. so we re seeing that across the country. the last thing i ll say, joe, is the person who thinks that donald trump will stay on this message. these three points for the next month and stay there has not been awake for the last two years. so just give it a week.
know, on the merits would have been the kind of nominee that would have been put forward by any other republican president. i understand why conservatives supported him. let s remember how it changed after christine blasey ford came forward. there was a credible allegation of sexual assault instead of looking into it, republicans tried to sweep it under the carpet and donald trump mocked this woman with her story of being instaultd and invoked george soros to game that soros was paying for the protest. ultimately then kavanaugh himself became kind of like a mini trump before the senate judiciary committee engaging in this kind of divisive partisan rhetoric. at the end of the day, i get it kavanaugh was confirmed. but me personally i was willing to support him before. i wasn t willing to support him after he revealed him self to be a partisan. that s something a traditional
government. he s undermining the rule of law. he is engaging in racism and sexism and seeing a phobia. he s mobilizing the worst forces in america, bigotry and prejudice in order to divide americans for political gain. this is not the kind of conservative i was familiar with in the 1980s. the reality there are these conservative trends in america, including people like george wallace and mccarthy. there s these terrible trends we were trying to overcome and sweep under the carpet and to be better than that. unfortunately donald trump is driving us back into the mud and redefining conservatism in his own image which is not the kind of conservatism that it recognize and that s why i can t be a republican any more and i even question whether i m really a conservative because these days conservative basically means trump toting. you talk about redefining the
paul ryan is someone who called out donald trump for being a racist in 2016. lindsey graham called him a kook. they were right the first time around. how do they justify being trump s lick spittles. the cost has been way too high. all that he s doing to undernine rule of law, our institutions, our standing in the world, how can they support all that? max, you and your family immigrated from the soviet union. you obviously know the importance of america s tradition of immigrants. yesterday i was watching fareed zakaria talking to madeleine albright, children of immigrant, coming from immigrant families that s at the center of the american experience for over