Video Statement by the Lincoln Project's Reed Galen

[JHB]

11. Not the base? Who made him president? Who savored every fleck of bile that he spit?

The base that conservatives have spent 40-50 years building. They cleared, leveled, and paved the road that Trump drag-raced on. And they were hard at work on that long before he ever put his wheels on it.

It has been the conservative modus operandi to take power to get what they want. If you think I'm wrong, then tell me who is the current leader of the "Rockefeller Republican" faction of that party. As far as I can tell, there ain't one, because they deliberately exterminated that part of the party. Then they moved on to various iterations of "grab with both hands when we can, buzz-saw whoever tries to push us back when we can't."

There is nothing about what transpired that is "unbelievable."

Maybe it's because I grew up in a conservative family. Sentiments like "I don't mind a banana republic, as long as I'm not the one picking bananas" are ones I've heard too many goddamn times to find this "unbelievable."