MSNBC / Michael Steele: Dear Chuck Schumer, the 'old' Republican Party is never coming back

[Dennis Donovan]

MSNBC / Michael Steele - Dear Chuck Schumer, the 'old' Republican Party is never coming back

Democrats keep assuming the fever will break, but it's just getting higher.

March 21, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
By Michael Steele, co-host of "The Weekend"

This summer will mark 10 years since Donald Trump first descended the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president of the United States.

Now, two months into his second term, it’s becoming painfully clear that many of the people best positioned to push back against his agenda still haven't accepted how much the world has changed.

The latest example came from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in "Mad House," an upcoming book from Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater of The New York Times, which revealed a 2023 exchange in which he said Trump was an aberration.

“Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican Party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party," he said, according to the book.

There are a lot of things wrong with this quote other than its needlessly vivid imagery.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Michael Steele is 100% correct.

The old GOP is dead.

It is now the Putin/Trump crime syndicate.

[Think. Again.]

2. I agree...

...the days of Democrats vs republicans are over.

We are now fighting a battle between fascism and Democracy.

An entire 1/3 of the voting age population are non-voters and are not loyal to either Dems or republicans, but DO want Democracy over fascism.

THEY are the Americans who we must reach out to and alert them to the dangers that the mass media is not telling them about.

[Irish_Dem]

4. It is a battle between good and evil.

Has the US become a nation of sociopaths, where evil is the accepted value system?

[Think. Again.]

6. Well put.

[GreenWave]

3. They have to pass the Koch bros idiocy test for funding and vicious attack ads against their foes.

[multigraincracker]

5. Like Michigan.

We use to have fairly decent Republican Governors. They were pretty much social liberals and more economic conservatives.
Then along came John Englet and that was the end of it.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick