Donald Trump is a huge problem, but there is a "much, much, much, much, much bigger" one, according to a former lawmaker who is now a registered Democrat.
Joe Walsh was once a Tea Party Republican congressman, but he abandoned his party with the coming of Trump, became an independent, and is now a Dem. He sounded the alarm on Thursday about the lengths Republicans will go to avoid criticizing Trump.
"If Donald Trump next week began demolishing the Washington Monument—because he wanted to change the structure of the Washington Monument and make it look more like Mar-a-Lago or the shape of a T for Trump or whatever—would any Republican say anything?" he asked. "I mean that. Would any Republican object? Would anybody on Fox News say, 'Stop. That’s too far'? Would any of Trump’s voters, any of his MAGA supporters say anything?"
Walsh concludes that, no, they would not stand up to the president.
"Donald Trump is demolishing the White House right now as we speak, and no Republican has said anything. No Trump supporter has said anything. Nobody on Fox News or OAN or Newsmax or right-wing talk radio, my former home, has said anything. Donald Trump has basically torn the East Wing of the White House down all by himself, and Republicans haven’t said s---," the former lawmaker added.
Still, he warns, there's a larger concern than Trump's actions.
"You see, Trump is a problem, a big problem. He’s everything our Founders feared. He’s an utterly corrupt, dishonest, cruel, ignorant, psychopathic, lawless fascist. That’s a big, big problem to have that in the White House," he wrote. "But the much, much, much, much, much bigger problem are all the fascist enablers—every enabler and appeaser over the years, these past 10 years, who have allowed Trump to do what he does. Trump could not be demolishing the White House as we speak if his enablers didn’t let him."
Walsh also added, "Trump would not be demanding $230 million from the Justice Department if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump could not have tried to overthrow an American election if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump couldn’t have dismantled USAID, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children around the world, if his enablers had not let him. Trump couldn’t be going after and trying to imprison his political opponents if his enablers did not let him."