'It's getting scary': Ex-RNC chair warns democracy is now a 'foreign concept' to Trump’s MAGA army
Major media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to the New York Times have done in-depth reporting on Project 2025, MAGA Republicans' plan to fill the United States' federal government with Donald Trump loyalists if he wins the 2024 GOP presidential nomination and defeats President Joe Biden in the general election. Those loyalists, according to reports, would be used to help Trump take revenge against his political opponents.
Critics of Project 2025 have been slamming it as a recipe for authoritarianism, and some of those critics are Never Trump conservatives — including former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele. During a Tuesday night, November 21 appearance on MSNBC, Steele laid out some reasons why he finds the MAGA movement's Project 2025 goals so dangerous.
The former RNC chairman told MSNBC's Joy Reid, "The horror that you are afraid of is there behind you in the closet down the hall, and it's no longer in the closet. It's actually kind of roaming the halls and taking out members as they find them in various chambers and organizations and so forth. So, the reality that remains for the party is: What does this become? You have still a number of folks in the House — certainly in the Senate, some governors around the country — in office right now who believe: (A) Trump will not be the nominee of the party at the end of the day, (B) We'll get past this — even if Trump is the nominee, he will lose in November of next year. And then, (C) We can all go down the yellow brick road together, and America will largely not remember just how badass we were. "
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Steele continued, "The fact is, all three of those assumptions are wrong. Everything about it is wrong. And so, the idea of democracy has become a foreign concept. It has become other to them, as an immigrant or migrant coming to the country…. That's how they're seeing the world right now. It's getting scary up in here."
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