MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday demonstrated Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-Ala.) evolution to full MAGA with a video the senator filmed solely 12 months in the past.
Britt’s theatrical supply of the official GOP rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union handle final week — together with her deceptive story a few intercourse trafficking sufferer — went viral for all of the mistaken causes.
“You might not agree with everything but it’s not scary,” Psaki mentioned of “2023 Britt.” Britt’s 2024 efficiency nevertheless, was proper “out of Trump’s playbook,” Psaki added.
Some GOP lawmakers like far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “ran as full-throated MAGA fanatics without even the pretense of waiting to govern, they didn’t evolve,” she famous.
But for others like Britt, who was initially seen as a extra wise conservative, there’s “been a bit of an evolution.” Psaki named Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) as one other. Nehls went from looking for to work with Biden on prison justice reform to sporting Donald Trump’s mug shot on a t-shirt final week.
“And that tells us something important,” mentioned Psaki. “Because even when you’re elected as more of a mainstream conservative […] there is no incentive to stay that way because the MAGA movement is no longer the fringe. It is the Republican Party and in order to stay in office and rise through the ranks, you have no choice but to go full MAGA.”
Watch Psaki’s evaluation right here: