“Why We Did It:” Fmr. RNC Spokesman on GOP’s Descent Into Trumpism | Amanpour and Company
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Published 2022-07-12
Originally aired on July 12, 2022.
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All Comments (21)
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Lindsey turned himself into a complete Trump sycophant becoming the biggest hypocrite in the senate. He’s an example of a morally bankrupt politician in a party with no ideas or aspirations other than power
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It is not a NEW BRAND, it is called FASCISM.
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In my opinion, trumpism has its roots back in the 1970's when the GOP decided that portraying the government as the enemy and going after the lower educated voter was the best way to get votes and limit government interventionism. The culmination of that strategy finds the GOP led by anti-government (including anti democratic government), anti-education, conspiracy minded, authoritarians.
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I find all of it heartbreaking as this has affected so many people around me living in Ohio. Some days I want to vomit the things coming out of people I once respected. It’s unbelievable to me how hateful they are and they believe not only are they right, they are the only ones “doing the Lord’s work”. They don’t seem to see they’ve switched gods and sold their souls😢 If they know better deep down, I don’t know how they live with themselves.
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Why didn't more GOP do the right thing? Why didn't their consciences not allow them to? I knew who Trump was for decades. I am an ordinary Canadian. How could you and not others see it?
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My father, who died in 1975, used to joke that if you want to know what a Republican thinks, ask a Democrat what they think first and know that the Republican will automatically oppose the Democrat without any hesitation or thought.
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I used to be a Republican and I can say that one thing that he said rings so true with me. To Republicans politics and everything connected to it is a GAME. Being a Republican is like being a rabid fan of a football team.
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“It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them that they have been fooled” - Mark Twain
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I will never understand people who can work for evil doers, doing evil things towards evil goals.... and claim they are not evil themselves.
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The real insidious and damaging people are the collaborators. Never underestimate someones ability to rationalize evil for personal power, wealth, and influence.
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It’s hard to convince someone of something when their livelihood depends on them not understanding it.
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There are no excuses for the horrific lack of rule of law and morality.
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This is pretty much what I remember my Dad and Uncle Arthur (both WWII veterans) telling me about how German people spoke in the late 1940s after the suicide of their leader Hitler. They talked waking up from a kind of hateful, fearful dreamworld. They were so filled with propaganda on all those subjects along with the absolute fear of being denounced for the smallest transgression that they dared not even doubt. It scares me green that there is a whole political party still toting these so-called values. We are about one election away from a hostile takeover by the power hungry.
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The election of Trump to the highest office of the land broke me as a person. It completely changed the way I perceive humanity. I can't get back to who I was.
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The country changed 180⁰ for me in 2016. It will never be the same again. It's very sad.
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Our reaction to 9-11 and the election of Trump: the two events of my lifetime that killed my understanding of America as a place of good people with good intentions.
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“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups” - George Carlin
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For those who may be interested, there was a German movie in the early 1980s called "Mephisto" - which won the oscar for best foreign movie - which deals with how a renowned actor, who backed socialist causes in the early 1930s found that collaborating with the Nazi's gave his career a great boost, turning him into someone completely unrecognizable at the end. Unrestrained careerism and lust for power and privilege - that's the basis of collaboration.
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“Compassionate conservatism?” That brief moment has long passed
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At 18:20 Tim talks about the GOP just trying to please their extremist voters, but he (fails to see?) That the GOP created & built that extremism that they now need to cow to
