Perez: GOP Must Answer for 'Appalling Silence' on Trump
Source: Politico
The DNC chairman is trying to yoke every GOP official to their voluble party leader.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE January 16, 2018
Tom Perez says Democrats can’t go into the midterms campaigning just as anti-Donald Trump, but he wants to tie Trump like an ankle weight to every Republican official, whom he accuses of “appalling silence.”
“On a basic level, this president is the antithesis of Martin Luther King,” Perez said. “And more than that, Dr. King once said, ‘To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.’” As chairman of the Democratic National Committee since last February—one of the most thankless jobs in politics—Perez has been trying to save the institution from death amid internal fighting that won’t stop and skepticism from many party leaders that there’s even a point to its existence.
His opponents are in worse shape, he insists, even though they control every branch of government in Washington, and most governors’ mansions and state houses beyond it. “The party of Lincoln is officially dead,” Perez told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast. “It has become the party of Trump, [Roy] Moore, [Joe] Arpaio, [Paul] Ryan, [Mitch] McConnell.”
To Ryan—who, unlike when he decried the “textbook racism” of Trump’s citing the Mexican heritage of the judge in the Trump University case during the 2016 campaign, said only on Friday that the president’s reported “shithole countries” comment was “unfortunate”—Perez says: Take a long, hard look at yourself. “It’s ‘unfortunate’ when it rains before a Nats game,” Perez said. “It’s unconscionable when somebody does something like that.”
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