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Steve Schmidt: The quote that kills MAGA
Link: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-quote-that-kills-maga
Donald Trump finally told the truth.
Not about corruption. Not about the collapsing economy. Not about the incompetence, the theft, the grift, or the staggering failure of his presidency.
He told the truth about contempt:
There it is. The mask slipped. The performance ended. The charade collapsed.
No modern American president has ever uttered a sentence so revealing, so politically catastrophic, and so morally grotesque in such plain language.
Richard Nixon hid his contempt. George W. Bush masked his detachment with swagger and slogans. Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment destroyed his campaign because it exposed a worldview of indifference toward ordinary people.
Donald Trump’s statement, however, is worse than all of them because it isn’t a gaffe. It isn’t a misstatement. It isn’t an accidental revelation caught on a hot microphone. It’s the governing philosophy of MAGA America.
The president of the United States looks at a country being crushed under inflation, shortages, debt, collapsing purchasing power, rising energy prices and fear about the future and said plainly: I don’t think about you.
Marie-Antoinette at least offered cake.
Trump doesn’t even think about the people standing in the bread line.
The statement should be understood for what it is: a political death sentence for the MAGA Congress because every Republican member of Congress now owns it.
.... That’s the story.
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Not about corruption. Not about the collapsing economy. Not about the incompetence, the theft, the grift, or the staggering failure of his presidency.
He told the truth about contempt:
I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.
There it is. The mask slipped. The performance ended. The charade collapsed.
No modern American president has ever uttered a sentence so revealing, so politically catastrophic, and so morally grotesque in such plain language.
Richard Nixon hid his contempt. George W. Bush masked his detachment with swagger and slogans. Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment destroyed his campaign because it exposed a worldview of indifference toward ordinary people.
Donald Trump’s statement, however, is worse than all of them because it isn’t a gaffe. It isn’t a misstatement. It isn’t an accidental revelation caught on a hot microphone. It’s the governing philosophy of MAGA America.
The president of the United States looks at a country being crushed under inflation, shortages, debt, collapsing purchasing power, rising energy prices and fear about the future and said plainly: I don’t think about you.
Marie-Antoinette at least offered cake.
Trump doesn’t even think about the people standing in the bread line.
The statement should be understood for what it is: a political death sentence for the MAGA Congress because every Republican member of Congress now owns it.
.... That’s the story.
Yes that IS THE STORY but Steve Schmidt has a lot more to say.
Please read the rest in today's "The Warning."
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Marie Antoinette almost certainly never said "let them eat cake" ("Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"
. The phrase was attributed to her decades after her death as a symbol of her supposed ignorance and callousness toward the starving French populace, but it first appeared in writing when she was just a child
