'Complicity and silence': Ex-Republican explains what’s 'frustrating' about Paul Ryan’s Trump criticism

14 December 2023

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-OH) recently aired out his true feelings towards former President Donald Trump, in an effort to stand with ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who actively warns against another Trump presidency.

The Hill notes former congressman held the speakership during Trump's first two years in office, and although he didn't say it then, he's saying it now: "Trump's not a conservative, he's an authoritarian narcissist."

MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Thursday asked former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor — who's also an ex-Republican who once supported Trump — about his thoughts on the ex-speaker's staunch criticism.

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Well, Jen, I mean, it's frustrating, of course, because all of us want people who say those things that are Republicans to have said them sooner," Taylor said." And I'm guilty of that, too. I even look at when I spoke out and thought it could have been sooner, and you can make that case for any of these people. It's good to see Paul Ryan doing it now. But what I will tell you, from having worked with him in 2015 and 2016 during Donald Trump's rise, is this is how Paul Ryan viewed Donald Trump back then, and nothing changed, and that should tell you a lot of things. First, about the complicity and silence within my former party, but also about what we are going into. And you know that at the top end, Jen, which is that this is a foreseeable civic catastrophe. And I want to make one thing clear."

He emphasized, "The United States is not Germany in the 1920s. But America in the 2020s does bear a striking number of resemblances, including the fact that there were contemporaries around the 20th century's most infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler, that are striking. People around that time period warned it was going to be dark, that he wanted to implement tyranny, this whole range of foreseeable policies. But what was important was, Hitler's words, made obvious what he wanted to do. We are experiencing that with Donald Trump. His contemporaries are calling him out, his own words dictate what he's going to do, and yet, incredibly, as I always say, we are still zombie walking towards that potential catastrophe. But I hope more Paul Ryans will come forward, and that could potentially help us avert what could be the end of the republic."

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