George Conway says the GOP 'can't cope with reality' — but there's one big problem with that

Conservative attorney George Conway said voters aren’t accepting Republicans’ increasing denial of facts, and they’re showing their frustration at town halls and public meetings.

“We [the Republican Party) used to listen to defense experts,” Conway told the MSNBC weekend panel. “We used to listen to monetary experts like Milton Friedman. There were a lot of experts that Republicans listened to, but now it's not about expertise. It's not about facts. It's not about the health of the American people or about sound monetary policy. It's about loyalty and control.”

Conway and the panel were discussing the Trump administration’s ongoing bloodbath as it fires veteran experts at the Fed and the recent removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he didn’t like that the July jobs report showed a drastic slowdown in hiring. He also accused her, without evidence, of rigging the data. Trump has since floated her replacement with a MAGA acolyte from the Heritage Foundation.

Conway described a party falling in line with the “mentality of a narcissist.”

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“Everything has to be under [Trump’s] control, including reality and facts, which is why we can't have people talking about facts,” Conway said. “It's why we can't have independent people figuring out what unemployment is or what inflation is. It's why we can't have all these nice things that allow us to behave like a 21st century society.”

“What's happening here is we're going back to the Dark Ages because they can't cope with reality,” Conway pressed. “They don't want to cope with reality. They want to create their own reality, and the problem is — as we saw with those people talking, yelling and booing at the town halls — people aren't buying it.”

Republicans are fleeing town halls in their own districts, hiding behind locked doors and closing formerly open meetings to the public as their own voters increasingly turn on them. Climate change denier Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) discovered a legion of boos and harassment at a recent town hall in rural Pinedale over her anti-carbon policies — mere years after the town managed to reduce it’s toxic air to a safe level.

U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) faced his own hostile crowd that shouted him down during his first town hall gathering since the passage of the deeply unpopular “Big Beautiful Bill Act.” And U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Ala.) recently ducked behind security-guarded doors and later ran to his car rather than face voters at an advertised “Quarterly Meet-up with Dale Strong” on Thursday.

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