Scornful John Heilemann: GOPer Response To Trump Is 'Pathetic'

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2022/12/51529.jpg" //divpMika Brzezinski wants desperately to use positive reinforcment for Republican politicians regarding their response to Trump's attack on the Constitution -- but as you might guess, there is no "there" there./p

pAnd John Heilemann was having none of it./p

p"Yeah. I mean, yes, you can play that game all day long. The Republican party is without -- I think they're very consistent, to your point. They're very consistent over the last six years. They have, you know -- there was nothing Donald Trump could do that would cause them to abandon him, and the only thing that I thought might move them is when they would start to play a political price. Now they're paying a political price, and they still won't abandon him."/p

pHe went on to dismiss most of the comments./p

p"I didn't see any courage in most of those statements. Mitt Romney has been where Mitt Romney is. They all never say the word Donald Trump. 'I can't imagine a president would do this.' You don't have to imagine it. Here, let me do a printout." /p

p"Why are they afraid to say his name?" Mika said./p

p"They are afraid of the base. They are afraid of the Republican voters, they're afraid of the Republican voters. They're not afraid of Trump. They are afraid of the voters who worship Trump. They're not wrong to be afraid of the voters in the sense if they turn against Trump, they believe those voters will turn against them," Heilemann said./ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/12/john-heilemann-says-goper-response-trump" target="_blank"read more/a/p