Reacting to a report that Pennsylvania Republicans booed, taunted and turned their back on two prominent Captiol police officers who fought the insurrectionist mob on Jan. 6, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson launched into an extended diatribe over what the GOP has become under Donald Trump.
According to a report from the Washington Post, "Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and former sergeant Aquilino Gonell were introduced on the [Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives] floor Wednesday as 'heroes' by House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D) for having “bravely defended democracy in the United States Capitol against rioters and insurrection on January 6.” As the two men — both of whom were injured by rioters on Jan. 6 — were introduced, the House floor descended into chaos. According to Democratic lawmakers, several GOP lawmakers hissed and booed, with a number of Republicans walking out of the chamber in protest."
With "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist prompting him by bringing up the ugly incident, Robinson jumped all over the GOP.
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"It is unbelievable," Robinson shot back. "One of those officers was injured, you know, a real injury to his foot defending the Capitol. The other was showered with racist abuse and, of course, physically threatened and endangered defending the Capitol, defending our members of Congress, trying to do their duty in the citadel of our democracy and they get booed."
"Look, one of our two major political parties has completely lost its mind," he continued. "That's largely because of Donald Trump. It is not just, you know, the senators and the representatives who are out there with this incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric, but at the local level, it's the rot, the craziness is even deeper and, in a sense, more worrisome. Because if you look at the state Republican parties, there are really fanatical sort of unhinged people who are becoming not just a significant faction in those parties, but in control of Republican parties in our major states."
"This is a political emergency that we are going to be dealing with, I think, for a while," he added. "Even if Donald Trump is defeated this November, all this sort of insanity in the Republican party, across the country, doesn't immediately go away. This is going to be with us."
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