In a Washington Post op-ed published Sunday evening, Joe Scarborough slammed the GOP, declaring in the headline that President Donald Trump “is killing the Republican party.”
Scarborough, a former congressman and co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” revealed last week that he is leaving the Republican Party, and in his Sunday op-ed he explained his reasoning.
“I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments,” he wrote.
He criticized Trump and Republicans for accepting him as the leader of their party.
“The GOP president questioned America’s constitutional system of checks and balances. Republican leaders said nothing. He echoed Stalin and Mao by calling the free press ‘the enemy of the people.’ Republican leaders were silent. And as the commander in chief insulted allies while embracing autocratic thugs, Republicans who spent a decade supporting wars of choice remained quiet,” Scarborough wrote. “Meanwhile, their budget-busting proposals demonstrate a fiscal recklessness very much in line with the Bush years.”
“It is a dying party that I can no longer defend,” he declared.
Read the entire op-ed at the Washington Post.
Shut up Joe!!! We heard in 2008 that the GOP would never be back in power again. We were told that the demographic shifts had resulted in the GOP to be nothing but a regional party, yet the GOP controls the entire federal government and the VAST majority of state legislatures and governorships.
Perhaps, but they sure know how to steal elections.
Interesting that a number of well-known hard-core Republicans are walking away: George Will, Joe Scarborough. Reading Jennifer Rubin now is a completely different experience than not all so long ago.
And yet, who cares? Certainly not the RNC. Definitely not McTurtle or Paul RAyn and their ilk.
“resisting military adventurism”? The GOP? What’s this dope selling?
You mean the same #NeverTrumpers who claimed that Trump had no chance of winning and was going to cost the GOP the House and the Senate in 2016? I say good riddance.