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    DS> Actually McCain and Romney were the only two Repubicans who did not   
    DS> abandon their party in favor of Trumpism.  Just compare what many other   
      
   As I have said there are many other Republicans who have abandoned   
   Trumpism because of his betrayal of American values.  Here is one oped   
   by a Republican Strategist.   
      
   Editor's Note: Steve Schmidt is one of the founding members of the   
   Lincoln Project.  He is a communications and public affairs strategist   
   who has worked on several Republican campaigns, including John McCain's   
   2008 bid for the White House, and is now a regular political contributor   
   to MSNBC.   
      
   On Saturday, Schmidt wrote a stinging rebuke of the president on his   
   Twitter feed over 11 posts. MaxNewsToday has decided to put together the   
   tweets and reprint them as one op-ed as a public service to the nation.   
      
   I find it necessary to reach for the language and colorful   
   colloquialisms of my native land, New Jersey, in order to express my   
   feelings about today’s event in Bedmimster.    
      
      
   It was a fucking travesty. Truly. An utter fucking disgrace. The   
   President of the United States of America stood behind the seal of his   
   office, framed by American flags and his private club’s membership,   
   slurring and raving about his victimization. His titanic self-pity was   
   only exceeded by his dishonesty and uncontrolled lying.    
      
      
   His lying was only subordinate to his staggering idiocy, ignorance,   
   ineptitude and incompetence. The incompetence, even after all this time,   
   shocks the conscience. 162,000 Americans are dead, and the economy is   
   shattered. So many more will die.    
      
      
   The evictions, foreclosures and small business closings are just   
   beginning. We are in the early hours of one of the greatest tragedies in   
   our country's history. None of it had to be, but it has happened because   
   Donald Trump is President. His malice, stupidity, ego and insecurity are   
   a lethal combination.   
      
      
   He has wrecked this country in less than four years. He has induced a   
   national nosedive, a decline that is precipitous, dangerous and   
   humiliating. The world is more dangerous.  American soldiers are hunted   
   like animals by Taliban killers who are paid bounties by Russian   
   killers, and Trump does nothing but kowtow to Putin and advance his   
   agenda.    
      
      
   Trump has divided the country and pitted Americans against each other.   
   He has loosed violence against peacefully assembled U.S. citizens and   
   deployed militarized paramilitary forces to escalate tensions in   
   American cities in the name of law and order, when the real purpose and   
   mission is to stoke the embers of chaos and create fear.    
      
      
   Fear, built on a mountain of lies, is the autocrats sword and shield.   
   Trump stokes fear to abuse his power and press forward with his assaults   
   on the rule of law, our essential institutions and our national comity,   
   all in the name of his corruption, aggrandizement and cult of   
   personality.    
      
      
   It is a despicable hour in the life of this country. This will be ended   
   because it must end. We will lose the country if Trump isn’t repudiated.   
   Make no mistake about the intentions of a president who is openly   
   undermining the 231-year-old tradition of American elections. He is   
   undermining the legitimacy of the coming election with no regard for the   
   consequences to liberal democracy here and around the world.    
      
      
   Fascism didn’t rise in the thirties because it was strong. It rose   
   because democracy was weak. American democracy is weak, decayed and led   
   by an illiberal man who, if he could, would cancel the election, lock up   
   his political opponents, enrich his friends and remain in power for   
   life.   
      
      
   Trump is the greatest failure in American history. No American has   
   failed history’s test in a more spectacular fashion. His stoking of   
   racial tensions and a cold civil war in our land will live in infamy.    
      
      
   His disgrace will be eternal.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
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