Bill Barr: Trump Will “Burn Down” The Republican Party

Former AG Bill Barr writes for the New York Post:

Trump isn’t really interested in broadening his appeal. Instead he is content to focus on intensifying his personal hold over a faction within the party — a group that is probably no larger than a quarter of the GOP, but which allows Trump to use it as leverage to extort and bully the rest of the party into submission.

The threat is simple: Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading “his people” out of the GOP.

Trump’s willingness to destroy the party if he does not get his way is not based on principle, but on his own supreme narcissism. His egoism makes him unable to think of a political party as anything but an extension of himself — a cult of personality.

Trump is due credit for stopping progressives’ momentum and achieving important policy successes during his administration. But he does not have the qualities required to win the kind of broad, durable victory I see as necessary to restore America. It is time for the 45th president to step aside.

Read the full op-ed. In Barr’s opening paragraph, he claims to have bemoaned Trump’s “juvenile, bombastic, and petulant style” starting with Trump’s infamous glide down that golden escalator. And yet Barr eagerly left retirement to work for him.

Bill Barr: “it is now clear he lacks the qualities essential to achieving the kind of unity and broad election victory in 2024 so necessary if we are to right our listing republic. It is time for new leadership.”
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— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 22, 2022