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Mitt Romney’s startling but familiar concession: The demagogues have won
“A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”
“I doubt my support will mean anything positive to any of the candidates at the finish line,” Romney said. “I’m not looking to get involved in that.”
And then, the most striking quote: “It’s pretty clear that the party is inclined to a populist demagogue message.”
This is a man who just a decade ago was his party’s choice for president saying his party has made its choice — and that the choice is demagoguery.
Romney built on this point in an excerpt — published Wednesday shortly after his retirement announcement — from Atlantic writer McKay Coppins’s forthcoming book about him.
Coppins writes that Romney has wrestled with the idea that Republicans had allowed a sleeping giant of authoritarianism — one Romney conceded might always have been there — to fester within their party.
“A very large portion of my party,” he told Coppins a few months after Jan. 6, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...oncession-the-demagogues-have-won/ar-AA1gG11J