Former Republican National Chair Michael Steele has been a staunch critic of Donald Trump as a host of MSNBC's The Weekend, alongside Symone Sanders Townsend and Alicia Menendez.
Although Steele remains a conservative despite his criticism of the president-elect, the ex-Republican leader is worried — like other GOP leaders critical of Trump — about the future of their beloved party.
"Watching this relationship between Trump and the Republican Party unfold over the last few years has triggered a question for me — a question that goes back to my time as chairman of the Republican National Committee and even before that, when I was involved in the party and watching its evolution," said Steele on a recent episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House.
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"That question is: What if the foundation of the Republican Party was bad from the beginning?" Steele continued.
"What if the idea that this party ever stood for those things — the Constitution or the rule of law — was a fallacy?"
Maybe the party was not who Steele thought it was, he suggests.
"Maybe Trump simply pulled back the curtain and exposed the truth of what the Republican Party has always been about."
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