Ex-GOP Lawmaker Sums Up Current Republican Platform With 2 Stinging Words

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Monday provided a crucial tackle the GOP’s shift in stance on Russia.

“I don’t believe the Republican Party today sees Russia as an adversary. I don’t believe they see [Russia President] Vladimir Putin as uniquely evil,” Jolly advised MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez.

“Today’s Republican Party has embraced American weakness,” he mentioned. “They are OK looking the other way and giving equity to Vladimir Putin and Russia, and that’s not just a pivot of orthodox. That’s a new chapter of Republicanism.”

Republicans are prepared to run on “American weakness,” he added.

Jolly’s criticism of his former get together — which he give up in 2018 over its capitulation to then-President Donald Trump — comes amid Trump’s encouragement of Russia to assault NATO allies and the dying of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny in a Russian jail, which has been broadly blamed on the Kremlin.

At the weekend, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) claimed Trump’s inflammatory and controversial feedback at marketing campaign rallies — similar to his Russia rhetoric— “don’t really translate” into his precise insurance policies.

“Except the problem is, David, often they do,” Menendez advised Jolly.

“Yea because the leader has followers,” he agreed. “I think there is a unique shamefulness to see Mike Turner, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham and others engage in this type of apologism, if you will, for their own political interest, to faceplant on the knee of Donald Trump. They do it very well, from Graham to Scott to Mike Turner to Elise Stefanik. Name them. There is a unique shamefulness to it.”

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