Yesterday, a lot of Republicans, most of them
elected officials decided to run and hide
from the press. When asked about Donald Trump's
tweet about possibly postponing the 20, 20
presidential election.
But believe it or not,
We actually were a few Republicans, not elected
officials, but a few Republicans who were
willing to not only go out there and talk
to the press. But one of them, a very prominent
Republican who has a hell of a lot more influence
than we'd like for them to have. One of them
was actually willing to go to the op ed pages
of the New York times to tell the president
that what he's doing is reminiscent of fascist
regimes. That person happens to be a man by
the name of Steven kalibrasi. Now kalibrasi
happens to be the founder of the Federalist
society. That is one of the organizations
that has a allegedly. They deny it, but all
the evidence points to it. Federalist society
has been one of the groups that kind of helps
steer Mitch McConnell and the Republicans
towards what kind of judges and which judges
in particular, they should be appointing to
the federal bench for lifetime appointments.
That's how powerful the Federalist society
is. They have Mitch McConnell's ear. They
have Donald Trump's here. And mr. Kalibrasi
took to the New York times yesterday to say
the following. He said, I am frankly appalled
by the president's recent tweets seeking to
postpone the November election. Until recently
I had taken as political hyperbole. The Democrats
assertion that president Trump is a fascist,
but this latest tweet is fascistic and is
itself grounds for the president's immediate
impeachment again by the house of representatives
and his removal from office by the Senate.
President Trump needs to be told by every
Republican in Congress that he cannot postpone
the federal election doing so would be illegal
unconstitutional. And without precedent in
American history, anyone who says otherwise
should never be elected to Congress. Again,
those are strong words. Those are correct
words too, by the way, you know, I have explained,
explained plenty of times, Trump can't do
this.
He has zero authority to postpone the United
States election. I know Mike Pompeo also said
yesterday that Pompeo is going to leave it
up to bill BARR on whether or not the post,
but none, none of them have any authority
on this at all. None of them can do that so
they can all shut the hell up. That's not
how this works. Uh, mr. Kalibrasi is correct.
Now here's the thing before somebody says,
well, clearly misery Killebrews, he's just
one of those never Trump Republicans, actually.
He's not a, this is a guy who very clearly
admits that he supported Donald Trump in 2016.
He thought the Mueller investigation was a
witch hunt and he was adamantly opposed to
Donald Trump's impeachment, uh, over the Ukraine
scandal. Now he says, impeach him for this.
This statement is fascist. What he is pushing
us towards is fascism. And that is not a hyperbole.
He says, he says, Oh, look, I always thought
Democrats were just kind of being crazy. Oh,
they were right now. He stopped short of saying
they were right. But his words that I just
read to you, uh, he's admitting they're right.
All those warnings, all those horrible, scary
things Democrats were saying about Trump and
what he could do to this country. Folks, they
have come to fruition, right? Uh, as you say,
down here in the South chickens come home
to roost, but here's the kicker. And this
is the part that mr. Kalibrasi still doesn't
get. Dude, you created this, you and all of
those other never Trump Republicans, all the
people from the Lincoln project that Democrats
are hailing as heroes. No, all of you people
together collectively with your work throughout
the last few decades, created the conditions
that gave us this monster. He is your Frankenstein's
monster. But now that you've seen what the
monster is capable of, now, you see what the
monster has destroyed and much like any other
mad scientist, you're sitting there saying
my God, what has happened,
But you should,
It would be saying, my God, what have I done?
You have to own this it's goal. It's great
that you're speaking out about your monster.
It's great that you don't like this monster
anymore and that you want the monster gone,
but you also have to acknowledge that you
created this because if you're unwilling to
take that step and admit that yeah, I made
this monster, then we're all at the mercy
of whatever monster you create next.
