...to save America..
A Republican strategist penned a gushing demand for
Americans to stand up now and halt a ‘moral disaster of
the highest magnitude” that he said was being ushered in
by Donald Trump.
On his Substack, Steve Schmidt, who worked on the
presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain,
warned that the need to protect their belongings had many
Republicans throwing values out of the window.
And he wrote Americans of all political stripes had to
unite in reaction.
“They are paralyzed by it,” he wrote about the effect of
Trump’s control on America’s elites.
“And terrified of losing things and stuff — trinkets and
baubles, properties and possessions — they can’t take to
heaven at the cost of something Thomas Paine said could
only be priced in celestial terms: freedom.”
He added, “The American Republic is being attacked from
within. The invaders are us — a faction of the American
people, led by an imbecile, and guided by a ferocious
certitude that power makes right.”
Among the crises Schmidt sees are Trump’s belief that the
judiciary is subservient to him, a political media that’s
not holding him accountable and an administration that
includes figures who he said backed an attempted
insurrection on Jan. 6, 2020.
“It is a great flood that has spilled over the levees,”
he said.
He went on, “Due process is under attack. The First
Amendment is under attack. Government officials who work
with us are flush with power and rage.
“... Everywhere, the pillars of something sublime are
crumbling. They are cracking, but not shattering.”
To save them from being decimated, he wrote, the
opposition must come up with a plan now.
“They will hold for a time, but the time to end this
madness will not last forever,” he wrote.
“Trump is vulnerable now! Tesla is vulnerable now. The
test for the moment is simple.
“Who cares more about their country than their ambition?
Who can speak up? Who will speak up?”
He concluded, “The next election is not between Chuck
Schumer and Trump. It is between the American people and
his sycophants, apologists and enablers, which includes
every Schumercrat.
"Better is ahead, but first there is a fight to be had.”
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