Shirley Jahad produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Gabe Bullard. “It’s almost like a Greek tragedy in a way, when you look at the forces that are bringing down Liz Cheney right now,” says Milbank. But Milbank says her father pushed the weaponizing of patriotism and the strategic use of lies two decades ago. Liz Cheney called out Trump for weaponizing patriotism. 6, 2021.Īnd, the lies leading up to the war in Iraq spread by former Vice President Dick Cheney laid the groundwork for the lies that are now dividing the Republican Party and opposing his daughter Liz Cheney. It was remarkable at the time, but in hindsight, Milbank says it’s part of a bigger picture with iterations building to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. “And you had Republican members of Congress out on the House balcony fomenting the crowd.” “Capitol Police were struggling to keep them outside the building, and they got to within 50 feet of it,” says Milbank. But Milbank says Republican leaders realized, “If you kept saying it, you could get a lot of people - 10s of millions of people - to believe these things.”įor example, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party brought thousands of activists to the Capitol when former President Barack Obama was in office. For years GOP officials have called the science around climate change a hoax.Įach of these could be debunked over and over. Candidate for Vice President Sarah Palin described so-called Obamacare “ death panels,” or boards to determine who was eligible for lifesaving care. Bush White House stoked fears and promoted the Iraq war by promoting baseless claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Milbank points out that years before Trump’s “Big Lie,” Republican officials promoted other big lies. But rather, he’s the culmination of a quarter-century trend, says Dana Milbank, Washington Post columnist and author of “ The Deconstructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party.” Trump did not cause the GOP to embrace misinformation, conspiracy theories and extremism. Several Republican candidates are running for office based on that lie. More than 70% of GOP voters believe the lie that election fraud led to Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. But how did the Republican Party get here? (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)įormer President Donald Trump is under investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act, election fraud and fomenting a crowd to storm the U.S. Facebook Email Dozens of people calling for stopping the vote count in Pennsylvania due to alleged fraud against former President Donald Trump gather on the steps of the State Capital on Novemin Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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