and maybe even likely that donald trump gets elected? sorry to ruin people s coffee, but we need to recognize the reality here. all of this information is coming out that donald trump made a serious concerted attempt to overturn the 2020 election. so we are gaining information on his lawlessness. second, we are seeing the party, the republican party, rather than revolting against this, is embracing it. he s becoming more popular. this is creating a feedback loop of radicalization with the president and his strongest supporters. and we also have to recognize that the political trend, the normal political trends are going in the short and medium term. in the republican direction. this is not just because of bad democratic messaging. it s because of the coalitions
the barnes firm injury attorneys call one eight hundred, eight million a dire warning from a top aide to george w. bush. in a new op-ed, michael gerson writes, it is increasingly effort that the nightmare prospect of american politics unified republican controlled federal government in the hands of a re-elected empowered donald trump in 2025 is also the likely outcome. michael gerson joins me now. number one, you say it s coming, like a a donald trump victory. i want to take the first part first quickly. why do you think it is coming
the will of the voters. the problem now is one party decided they don t have to do that column, former speech writer to george w. bush says what should be evident to every american that cares about their future, trump has the forces he unleashed on january 6th. he has embraced more absurd and malicious conspiracy theories and shown less stability, humanity, responsibility and restraint and his support among republicans has grown. he warns it is increasingly evident that the nightmare prospect of american politics unified republican control of the federal government in the hands of a reelected, empowered donald trump in 2025 is also the likely outcome. as the only party left to actually support democracy, it s incumbent democrats prevent the outcome because republican victories in 2022 and 2024 could
that we lose sight of the loser stakes here and i m hearing people say, oh, you know, if joe biden can t get this big bill through congress, then the democrats will be in big trouble next year and that may be true but it shouldn t be true because anybody out there who cares about the fate of our democracy has to realize that there is no way they can support republicans under the present circumstances because this is a party a lot of which already went along with the coup attempt in january of this year and since then, all the republicans who didn t go along with the coup, they re all being purged. you know, being part of the big lie is not becoming a litmus test for the republican party. even though we see new revelations almost every day about donald trump s attempt to over throw our democracy, more than 60% are republicans still supporting him and the only republican office holders that don t support him are in danger of losing reelection. liz cheney lost her leadership position in t
civil war with marjorie three names of georgia polling her supporters as to whether they would support a national divorce. spoiler alert. they do. the republicans hope to turn this country into is so unthinkable. think texas except everywhere. with the despicable donald trump as maybe the permanent president completely unleashed with full control of the justice department, the military, the cia, the fbi, et cetera, et cetera, plus the nuclear codes. even as we speak, republicans when not banning books about race or putting abortion bounties on women or nuking the right to vote for anyone who isn t on their team are hurriedly installing hand picked trump loyalists into every realm of government packing local election with foot soldiers and purging opposition forces. when fascism arrives in america, as congressman adam schiff