'Lobsters in a boiling pot': Ex-GOP lawmaker warns MAGA plot for violence is taking shape
Former President Donald Trump's loyalists are laying out an agenda for violence, warned former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat" — and American voters need to wake up and wipe them out up and down the ballot.
This comes shortly after Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the overseer of Project 2025, proclaimed America is on the brink of a second revolution, which will be "bloodless" only if the left doesn't stand in their way.
"It seems every day we're reporting about a new threat of violence or retribution coming from Trump or MAGA world," said anchor and legal analyst Katie Phang. "My question is this: If the threat of judicial action has been neutered or rendered impotent and the GOP norms for the party as we've seen from the 2024 platform have now all been debased, what's left to protect Americans?"
The answer, Jolly replied, is "re-electing House and possibly Senate Democrats. You want to stop Project 2025 and the weaponization of the Department of Justice, keep Donald Trump out of the White House and put Democrats in charge of the lower house that's responsible for impeachment and other proceedings. That's the way to do it."
"I think the trendline is what's so terrifying," he continued. "In some ways, we were kind of lobsters in a boiling pot, because where this was maybe talked about among some activists in the shadows in 2016, you saw this group of leaders, the John Yoos and others and candidates like the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate, they didn't really emerge with power in the Trump administration until that last chapter when Donald Trump realized all of these people will do my bidding for me. They'll weaponize the Department of Justice. This is my team. We know what would happen now. They would be there on day one in a second Trump term. That is the real term. The focus is important because it's a foundational document for Republicans. But I also don't think we can focus so much on it that we let Donald Trump escape his own statements and his own records."
Trump's denials he has anything to do with Project 2025, Jolly added, are "garbage."
"We know he said he wants to engage in retribution," said Jolly. "We know Donald Trump embraces economic and inequality. His record on education and healthcare and infrastructure is terrible. We know he wants to roll back individual and voting rights and rights of minority communities. Those are Donald Trump's platforms and words. Not just Project 2025. Project 2025 organizes it and adds fuel to Trumpism and a Donald Trump presidency. Both of them are equally scary. Together, I guess more so."
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