Veteran
GOP strategist Steve Schmidt renounced his Republican Party membership. The following
is taken from a series of tweets that Schmidt posted.
29 years and nine
months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party
which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human
life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the
party of Trump.
It is corrupt,
indecent and immoral. With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan
and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the
legacies of the party’s greatest leaders. This child separation policy is
connected to the worst abuses of humanity in our history. It is connected by
the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and
broke up Native American families. It is immoral and must be repudiated. Our
country is in trouble. Our politics are badly broken.
The first step to a season
of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation of Trump and his
vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities. I do not
say this as an advocate of a progressive agenda. I say it as someone who
retains belief in DEMOCRACY and decency.
On Ronald Reagan’s
grave are these words. “ I know in my heart that man is good. That what is
right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and
every life.” He would be ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest while
this corrupt government establishes internment camps for babies. Everyone of
these complicit leaders will carry this shame through history. There legacies
will be ones of well earned ignominy. They have disgraced their country and
brought dishonor to the Party of Lincoln.
I have spent much of
my life working in GOP politics. I have always believed that both parties were
two of the most important institutions to the advancement of human freedom and
dignity in the history of the world. Today the GOP has become a danger to our
democracy and values.
This Independent
voter will be aligned with the only party left in America that stands for what
is right and decent and remains fidelitous to our Republic, objective truth,
the rule of law and our Allies. That party is the Democratic Party.
— Steve Schmidt
(@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018
Schmidt
served as an adviser in the George W. Bush White House. Last July, Schmidt said Trump had the “impulse control of a
little child.”
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