As Donald Trump continues another campaign for the presidency despite the ample polling that indicates widespread opposition among Americans, many within the actual Republican Party are sticking with him. He has endorsements from a long list of elected Republicans, and he leads in polling, while the chairwoman of the national party is refusing to condemn Trump for referring to political opponents of his as “vermin,” which directly mirrors Nazi propaganda!
Ronna McDaniel, the party chairwoman, responded specifically by refusing to comment substantively on Trump’s language at all. “When @GOPChairwoman refuses to condemn the GOP’s leading candidate for using the same Nazi propaganda that mobilized 1930s-40s Germany to evil, it’s fair to assume she’s collaborating. History will judge Ronna McDaniel and every Republican who is appeasing this dangerous man,” former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming said Monday on X (Twitter).
Even some of the Republicans who’ve launched primary campaigns against Trump ostensibly hoping to get the GOP nomination in his place have sometimes resisted directly confronting him. On a debate stage earlier in the race, most of those present said they’d still back Trump even if he was the GOP nominee and had been convicted of a felony, and the odds of that in sheer numerical terms are certainly on the higher side, considering his 91 charges and four criminal cases. Polling from the primary clearly indicates the relative success of these Republicans’ approach of challenging Trump without sometimes even directly going after him. Ron DeSantis now polls barely in double digits.
Trump also keeps generally standing with participants in the Capitol riot, which federal prosecutors have indicated they intend to use against him in court while pursuing their January 6 case and which hasn’t spurred any kind of mass Republican exodus any more than anything else. That’s despite Trump’s offers of pardons to a crowd including hundreds and hundreds charged with violently assaulting police.
When @GOPChairwoman refuses to condemn the GOP’s leading candidate for using the same Nazi propaganda that mobilized 1930s-40s Germany to evil, it’s fair to assume she’s collaborating. History will judge Ronna McDaniel and every Republican who is appeasing this dangerous man. https://t.co/f4MMPoreFc
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) November 13, 2023
