Steve Schmidt: "This is an urgent matter. This is not ok in America. We do not have secret police"

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48. I actually do welcome it also.

I believe in deathbed conversions and all that other stuff. I believe that hearts and minds really can be changed and that people are redeemable. Evidently Somebody thought so.

It’s just that with the aforementioned “recovering GOPers, I’m not 100% willing to trust. At least not yet. Most of them seem converted and appear to have faced the error of their ways. But that’s right now. With trump to disown and denounce and disavow.

But what happens if Romney decides to take another stab at it? What happens if Mike Dewine steps forward? Heck, what do they do when Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeo decide to go for it? Do they remain reasonable like they are now? Or do they run back to the GOP so they can keep cutting taxes for the rich, keep using that as an excuse to cut services and programs for the poor and needy, curtail civil rights and voting rights, and try to own and dominate women’s bodies?

Is it just trump they can’t stomach? Or have they started realizing it’s their policies, and a lot of what they believe in, that they need to rethink - and leave behind?

I hope it’s the latter. I sincerely do hope there’s a genuine re-evaluation. I hope there’s a great awakening, a great realization, that policies only of what benefits the haves and have-mores are just plain wrong.

But I’ve been around long enough to know I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high.