GOP Senator Says Republicans Are In Denial About Trump (Video)
Republicans are starting to turn on Trump.
[watch the video below]
Republican Senator Jeff Flake on Monday said the Republican Party is in denial about Donald Trump’s first few months in office. In an op-ed in Politico, Flake called on members of his party to speak out against Trump’s extreme rhetoric and policies.
Flake also sat down for an interview with Fox News to discuss the chaos in the White House.
“First, we shouldn’t hesitate to speak out if the president ‘plays to the base’ in ways that damage the Republican Party’s ability to grow and speak to a larger audience,” Flake wrote in an op-ed for Politico Magazine.
“Second, Republicans need to take the long view when it comes to issues like free trade: Populist and protectionist policies might play well in the short term, put they handicap the country in the long term.”
“Third, Republicans need to stand up for institutions and prerogatives, like the Senate filibuster, that have served us well for more than two centuries,” Flake added.
Here is another key segment from the op-ed:
It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued. To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial.
Watch the inteview here:
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