Ex-GOP chair gives advice on how to stop Trump's 'hamster wheel of capitulation'

Citing a lesson to be learned from a popular children's book, former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Steele issued a warning to those who have capitulated to Donald Trump that they have created a monster that can never be satisfied.

Steele, currently the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend," wrote for the outlet that the president in 2003 was photographed reading "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," to children and he seemed to miss the point of the book or, more likely, identified with the demanding mouse.

As Steele noted, the book is a cautionary tale about giving in to demands which only grow more ridiculous, which explains a lot about the re-elected president and his second-term power grab.

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According to Steele, "Rather than heeding the caution the book imposes on the reader about the slippery slope of capitulation, he may have interpreted the mouse's journey as aspirational — a blueprint for expanding his power that he is now applying to our entire system of governance."

Writing that Trump's "demands are growing broader and more unfeasible," he added that one need only look at the threats he has aimed at leading law firms, who have in turn "bent the knee," which has only emboldened him.

Pointing out that there is some growing resistance to Trump's bullying he cautioned, "if we want to stop that hamster wheel of capitulation, it will take much more than patches of scattered opposition to slow Trump’s authoritarian tendencies. It will take a resounding, united 'No' to every Trump demand for more cookies ... and maybe a kindergarten level of reading comprehension."

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