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<\/p>\nJASON: I do want to talk about this Michael Gerson character. This guy — it\u2019s hard to talk about this without getting into a larger picture of where the Republican Party is right now. I lived and breathed the metamorphosis from Wall Street, country club Republicanism to working class Trumpism. And the people that are screaming the loudest against it are not, believe it or not, Democrats. It\u2019s Republicans. It is the Never Trump Republicans at the Lincoln Project, and Never Trump Republicans who hate Trump, and Never Trump Republicans who opposed me in my race for the House, which I won in \u201916, and then worked against me in the 2020 race for the Senate, which I did not prevail.<\/p>\n
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These are the people who are preventing the Republican Party from being a majority party. We ought to kick their ass right out the door and say good riddance, join the Democrat Party. They are hangers-on trying to disrupt the transformation that must occur, with Trump or without him, into a working class party representing, not international elites, not private equity, not trade with China, not globalism, not intervention and endless war, but an American-first party that puts Americans at the head of the table. After all, without America, where does the world stand? But that\u2019s not the reason to do it. The reason to do it is, countries defend their own. Empires crumble.<\/p>\n
So, Michael Gerson is a classic Never Trumper. He was the precursor to the Lincoln Project. They got their inspiration from this clown. And remember when Rush used to rail against John McCain and, oh, so many, so many traditional, mainstream Republicans were aghast. Well, let me tell you why he did so. When some of us in the House stuck our neck out on real health care reform because we thought it was the right thing to do, McCain gave a thumbs-down — when 30 minutes, an hour before, he said he would vote in the affirmative. But above and beyond that, John McCain always cared more about what the New York Times said about him than he did about free minds and free markets and shrinking government. And he\u2019s not alone. Mitt Romney\u2019s the same way. And Gerson represents that group of Bush-McCain Republicans that doesn\u2019t want the party to transform.<\/p>\n