'Small, petty man': Ex-prosecutor questions how party of family values supports Trump

Former President Donald Trump is unfit to regain control of the executive branch, said former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on MSNBC Friday — and it says something about the hordes of Republicans eager to continue supporting him.

She pushed this emphatically during a segment in which anchor Alicia Menendez noted that 179 Republicans signed onto a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado ruling disqualifying him from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

"I just wonder how we got to this point where the party puts a man above the Constitution, where there's no mechanism in their mind's eye for accountability," said Menendez. "They didn't want to see it through impeachment. They don't want to see it through legal challenging. They're not picking and choosing. They're saying none of the above."

"This is the question we struggle with," concurred Vance. "Perhaps it will be a question that historians will look at through a more sophisticated lens than what we can look at it why we're living through it."

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What seems clear to her, she continued, is that "It seems absolutely unconscionable that the Republican Party, the party of small government, the party of family values, you know, you could go on and on and on, the Republican Party that I grew up with at the end of the last century, that they would somehow come to support a small, petty man like Donald Trump who can barely control his personal behavior and certainly isn't fit to lead a country."

"I think what we have to be very cavalier about understanding is that there are people in this country who value power more than they value country, who would rather be powerful than live in a rule of law based democratic society," she added. "That's what makes this coming election so important. I think this isn't a political principle. This is a principle of how we want this country to look going forward. Do we want to continue to have a rule of law, or do we want a dictator? I don't know any other way to put it. It may sound alarmist, but that's the question. Will we let Donald Trump become a dictator in 2024?"

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