'Burn it all down': George Conway issues scathing takedown of Trump and GOP’s core belief

Now that President Donald Trump's second term is in its second month, conservative attorney George Conway is arguing that his central guiding philosophy — along with that of his supporters in the GOP — is now crystal clear.

During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele asked Conway (the former spouse of ex-Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway) if he's seen anything change in the administration's approach to governing since Trump's second term began. Conway opined that Republicans "just want to burn it all down."

"I don't see any rationality in what they're doing other than that it is a performative attack on the government, and it is an attempt to destroy what they perceive to be as the enemy, which is the very government that they are charged with administering," he said. "That's the only way to explain almost everything this administration has done."

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Conway asserted that the "burn it all down" ideology is what led Trump to appoint Robert F. Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as attorney general (who was eventually replaced by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi). And he assailed centibillionaire Elon Musk's firing of federal workers — particularly those in charge of managing nuclear weapons — who he eventually had to hire back.

"Basically, Donald Trump wants to have revenge on the United States of America," Conway said. "You cannot figure out who should stay or go unless you know what the hell's going on with the government, and these guys don't, and they don't care."

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