MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stated Monday that Republicans might have an even bigger drawback than Donald Trump ― and that’s Republicans themselves.
During the phase, Maddow highlighted a New York Times article printed earlier within the day that in contrast coup makes an attempt by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, and loyalists to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Jan. 8, 2023, after each males misplaced presidential elections. The article famous how each stoked their allies into violence with false claims of election fraud, however the aftermaths have been starkly totally different.
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Bolsonaro was shunned by right-wing leaders who accepted the vote tally and banned from operating for workplace till 2030 by a Brazilian courtroom.
Trump, in the meantime, stays the de facto head of the GOP and is poised to turn into the occasion’s nominee once more. He holds a commanding lead regardless of dealing with indictments associated to the revolt and efforts to maintain him off the poll in some states due to his alleged involvement within the Capitol riot.
“Bolsonaro has since become totally irrelevant in politics in Brazil, while Trump is still at the head of the Republican Party in the United States and is poised to become the party’s nominee for president again,” Maddow stated, including that Bolsonaro is “disqualified from politics for the time being because of what he did.”
Trump, nonetheless, might not get the identical remedy, with the MSNBC host noting how the “super conservative” U.S. Supreme Court might be listening to his case to remain on Colorado’s presidential major poll subsequent month.
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“So, it’s partly a matter of whether or not there’s a judicial penalty for effectively waging war against your own country’s democracy,” Maddow stated, earlier than turning her consideration to Republicans who’re complicit in Trump’s mess.
“It’s also a matter of how Republicans, how the party, how American Republican leaders have reacted to this violence from their own leader, how they’ve reacted to this anti-democratic turn in the leadership of their party,” she continued. “It is not just a Trump problem. It’s that Republicans like what Trump did. And they don’t mind the idea of him doing it again.”
Watch the video under.