This week while promoting his new book on Fox news, former defense secretary Mark Esper
actually told Fox news host Bret Baier, that Donald Trump was a threat to our democracy.
Now, before I read the exact quote, let me, let me, let me reiterate that.
Mark Esper, you know, former Trump advisor, secretary of defense, went on Fox news and
was allowed to say with no pushback that Donald Trump was a threat to our democracy.
Here's his quote. I think that given the events of January 6th, given how he has undermined the
election results, he incited people to come to DC, stirred them up that morning and failed
to call them off, to me that threatens our democracy. What else can you conclude, Bret?
Esper's not wrong. That absolutely is a threat to our democracy.
It was a massive threat to our democracy on the day that it happened. And Donald Trump's continued
undermining of our electoral systems here in the United States continues to be a threat to
democracy. I mean, he has pushed that lie so far that we now have Republicans breaking the law,
you know, stealing voting machines, stealing voter data, just to prove the fraud that doesn't exist.
That's a threat, these people stealing this because they think Donald Trump is telling
them to do so or Mike Lindell may be telling them to do so, they think. But he continues. When asked
if he would, you know, if he thinks Trump should or would run again, he said, I hope the Republican
base can figure out that while president Trump pushed a lot of traditional Republican ideas,
that there are other candidates out there that could run that could do it without dividing the
people, without creating such tension within the country and do it by growing the base as well.
He then of course said that he would not be voting for Donald Trump if he's the nominee in 2024.
But that's the thing folks. Republicans, the base no longer wants traditional Republican values.
If they did Liz Cheney would still be one of the most popular Republicans in the country,
right? Same thing with Nancy Mace, same thing with all of these other
so-called RINOs that Donald Trump rails on and on about all the time, all of these people are
pushing, you know, basically the same policies from Liz Cheney to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
There's no difference in what they want to do. The only difference is are you loyal to Trump or not?
And he has managed to convince this party that that's all you really need.
That's the only thing that sets them apart is how much they love Donald Trump. And if you are not
sufficiently loyal to him, he's gonna come after you because these so-called traditional Republican
values that Mark Esper's talking about no longer matter in electoral politics.
It's all window dressing. All of you believe the same thing.
And honestly, when Esper says that, that's not really a good thing for the Republican party,
it's almost an indictment of the Republican party. He's basically telling us, look,
it doesn't matter if it's a Trump or a Liz Cheney or a Mitt Romney. All these people
want the same thing. It's all the same horrible candy. It just comes in different wrappers.
That is one of my favorite analogies that I have come up with about the Republican party today.
When it comes down to policy, there is no difference between any of these people, whether
they're a moderate RINO or a hardcore MAGA hat wearing lunatic, they all want the same policies.
They just happen to disagree on one thing and that one thing is how much do you love Donald Trump?