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Dennis Donovan

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:00 AM Mar 2025

MSNBC / Michael Steele: Dear Chuck Schumer, the 'old' Republican Party is never coming back [View all]

MSNBC / Michael Steele - Dear Chuck Schumer, the 'old' Republican Party is never coming back

Democrats keep assuming the fever will break, but it's just getting higher.

March 21, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
By Michael Steele, co-host of "The Weekend"

This summer will mark 10 years since Donald Trump first descended the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president of the United States.

Now, two months into his second term, it’s becoming painfully clear that many of the people best positioned to push back against his agenda still haven't accepted how much the world has changed.

The latest example came from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in "Mad House," an upcoming book from Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater of The New York Times, which revealed a 2023 exchange in which he said Trump was an aberration.

“Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican Party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party," he said, according to the book.

There are a lot of things wrong with this quote other than its needlessly vivid imagery.

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Michael Steele is 100% correct. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #1
I agree... Think. Again. Mar 2025 #2
It is a battle between good and evil. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #4
Well put. Think. Again. Mar 2025 #6
They have to pass the Koch bros idiocy test for funding and vicious attack ads against their foes. GreenWave Mar 2025 #3
Like Michigan. multigraincracker Mar 2025 #5
Kick dalton99a Mar 2025 #7
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