Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt: Trump's 'fascist' movement 'must be crushed' and 'annihilated'

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

"Before we can talk about reconciliation, we have to talk about accountability," Schmidt told "Morning Joe" hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough — a former GOP congressman and fellow Never Trump conservative. Scarborough has described Trump as a "fascist" many times, and Schmidt wholeheartedly agrees with that description of the outgoing president.

According to Schmidt, Trump is a "fascist" who "incited violence against the people of the United States as the Capitol of the United States fell to a seditious mob" on January 6. And the "fascist" movement that Trump has promoted, Schmidt warned, won't be going away after Trump leaves office on January 20.

Schmidt told Scarborough and Brzezinski, "This threat must be crushed. It must be annihilated. This threat must be met head on…. We are in for a long fight…. It will last years."

https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/steve-schmidt/

Yes.

[dalton99a]

1. Don't be nice to people who try to kill you.

[Wednesdays]

9. Paging Mike Pence! Paging Mike Pence!

Hello? Anybody in there?

[exboyfil]

2. He is right

And the GOP failed in the first step - Yes on impeachment. Each one of them is a kindred spirit with Neville Chamberlain.

[lagomorph777]

3. Each is a kindred spirit with Adolph Hitler. They aren't capitulating; they are participating.

[exboyfil]

4. I think my Freshman Representative is closer to Chamberlain

but I can be convinced otherwise.

[Klaralven]

5. There is a higher percentage of Trumpists in the US than the percentage of Uighurs in China

And look at the difficulty that China has had with reeducating the Uighurs.

[badboy67]

6. Beware the Trump humpers infiltrated into the Senate.

They empowered Trump for 4 years, and even now, still carry his water.

[NCDem47]

7. Rs desperatly want to "move on" and reduce 1/6 to a nothing event

Why? so they can build upon it in the future. Without consequences, it's simply accepted as the new normal.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

8. Those who funded the insurrection must be brought to justice as well.

There will always be those who despise Democracy. If they can't take it down completely, they will attempt to water it down, dilute it for those they deem unworthy.
Our Democracy will continue to evolve, thrive, become more equitable, more unified, more uplifting. That is the beauty of Democracy. And it scares the hell out of the tyrants to imagine what will happen to their ambitions to rule the world should the people stand united in the center of the embrace of Democracy's Liberty and Justice.