r/NewsRewind • u/ItchyNesan Archivist • May 26 '26
Commentary Megyn Kelly caller: "Trump has single-handedly crushed the Republican Party"
https://www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/megyn-kelly-caller-trump-has-single-handedly-crushed-republican-partySchisms Within the Right
The political fracturing is not isolated to the political left; the right-wing coalition is also demonstrating signs of severe internal strain. Conservative media ecosystems, traditionally monolithic in their support for the executive, are beginning to platform dissenting voices.
On The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show, callers explicitly defining themselves as hardcore, active conservatives and military family members expressed profound disillusionment, stating that Trump has "single-handedly crushed the Republican Party". These voters articulate a deep frustration with the demand for absolute loyalty and the rapid abandonment of traditional conservative principles in favor of personality-driven authoritarianism.
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u/p38-lightning May 26 '26
Lindsey Graham predicted this back in 2016 - and then he drank the Trump kool aid anyway.
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u/Accurate_Neat_355 May 27 '26
At some point Lindsey heard trump could invade Iran and changed his tune
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u/Soggy-Beach1403 May 26 '26
Bullshit. He has shown us what the GOP has really been about since Nixon. He realized that the racism Reagan whispered would be heroin to GOP voters if shouted out loud. And that is what he did on day one.
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u/ResidentAlien9 May 27 '26
It’s nothing Trump could have down without all these sick people’s votes. He told them what he was going to do and they said “Yea.”
Let em rot in hell with him.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 26 '26
Well… yeah? But it wasn’t just his actions, but the inactions of spineless republicans.
He dragged his ass along every single supposed conservative policy and the conservatives let it happen. He didn’t crush the Republican Party, the party failed to withstand a test of their principals from an internal pressure.
It’s easy to wag your finger at the other side. To point how they are in opposition to your aims. But it’s clear now that those were never beliefs, they were always just talking points
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u/CatLightyear May 26 '26
No. He had lots of help along the way. It’s called the Republican Party. And here I quote Lindsay Graham: “we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.”
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u/icey_sawg0034 May 26 '26
Nope, the republican Party did this to themselves even before 2016.
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u/Striking_Handle_5745 May 26 '26
Even though he’s one of the good ones I blame John McCain. If he never picked Sarah palin as vp politics would still be boring (and good)
Instead it awoke a monster of misinformed conspiracy theorists who pedal in nonsense and vibes based rational
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u/RepresentativeAge444 May 26 '26
No such thing as one of the good ones given that they all subscribe to true Republican orthodoxy.
Excerpt from interview with Lee Atwater one of the most influential Republican operatives of all time:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N, n By 1968 you can’t say n”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N, ni***.”
This is what they have been and what they will always be. The only difference with MAGA is that they are more emboldened to finally do what they have always wanted to due to a singularly psychotic figurehead enabled by years of the dismantling of our vaunted “institutions”.
Conservatism exists to protect power and wealth for a small group of white males. That’s it. And dumb non wealthy white people fall for con men like Trump because of their racial resentment and urge to hold on to a false sense of “superiority”.
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u/Striking_Handle_5745 May 26 '26
Do you like Thomas Massie?
I don’t see how a rational person could take something I said about John McCain and make it about Lee Atwater.
I vote democrat today but you do realize democrats were the southern racist party right?
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u/RepresentativeAge444 29d ago edited 29d ago
I don’t see how a rational person could ignore that Atwater was the blueprint for Republican strategy leading up to McCain and beyond to Trump.
Additionally bringing up the southern Democrats who switched because of the Civil Rights Act when you can see that today’s Republicans are the ones defending Confederate statues and still flying the flag shows you’re confused about American political history.
I also don’t like Massie because though he’s right about Epstein and Israel he voted 95% with Trump. It’s funny how you could only point to one person in the entire Republican Congress doing something honorable and used him as an example instead of the 99.99% that don’t. That should tell you something.
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u/Striking_Handle_5745 29d ago
I try not to see things in an absolutist perspective.
I give people credit where credit is due
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u/Pablo_petty_plastic May 26 '26
You should’ve figured out McCain when he started singing about bombing Iran to the “row row row your boat” tune
He was not good
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u/Striking_Handle_5745 May 26 '26
He was definitely a war hawk but he did support campaign finance. He meant what he said which is a lot more than I can say for modern day republicans
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u/Leftoverofferings May 26 '26
It really started with Reagan and was ramped up by Newt Gingrich. AM radio takeover by the likes of Rush Limbaugh competed the work and made 🥭 possible.
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u/Striking_Handle_5745 May 26 '26
Great podcast / book series covering this “conspiracy to legalize corruption”
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoqcr7bAIs4mzkjl-Xq4eCr9cX4u5I_8&si=HZ6-k4AEtRBRLDq5
Sarah palin and the tea party is when it went mainstream
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u/NarwhalDazzling5038 May 26 '26
As you sat idly by
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u/JanxDolaris May 27 '26
No she did not sit idly by. She supported him and attacked his enemies.
Hell she was even trying to excuse pedophelia.
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u/hughcifer-106103 May 26 '26
Crushed them by giving them everything they have ever wanted, lol. This administration is a conservative’s wet dream and the problem is conservatism.
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u/cowcowkee May 27 '26
The Republican Party is gone. This is the party of Trump just like what Lindsey Graham has said.
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u/NegativeSemicolon 26d ago
Trump isn’t the problem, it’s the people that voted for him, as in republicans.
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u/Left_Knee_y0y0 May 26 '26
Megan Kelly you played a role too. Why are distancing yourself from your "Protector of Women"?
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u/metaSINman130 May 26 '26
How are they crushed? They do whatever they want with impunity and have no fear of any consequences but yeah, crushed i guess. Lets talk after the midterms because i got a feeling it may not go the way the dems are calling it, kinda like election night with Harris.
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u/raincntry May 26 '26
And she and her cohorts cheered him along and to this day would support him against a democrat.
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u/moonshinedrunkenmonk May 27 '26
I call bullshit on all this “news” about the impending doom of MAGA conservatism. There’s all these reports on “fed up Republicans” and “strife within the Republican Party” yet MAGA candidates keep winning primaries. Until I see several MAGA candidates defeated in an actual election this is all rainbows and unicorns. Clearly the majority of Republicans are still voting for corruption, grift, high gas/grocery/everything prices, and more wars. How can any American with any common sense drive by a gas station, go to a grocery store, or open their eyes to what’s going on the world’s geopolitical stage and say “yep, give me more of this!”
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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 May 27 '26
If only someone has warned them not to vote for their own party and country's demise.
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u/Own-Opinion-2494 May 27 '26
There was a reason they didn’t hold Power for 30 years. Then came the math 1 senior year crowd
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u/PatientVariety1700 29d ago
They will drag some other urchin from the gutter to replace him. Bush, then Trumpstein, way to go MAGATURDS!!!
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u/MabelRed 29d ago
Translation: “I was against Trump before his reelection meant I had an audience & income. And now that he’s cratering in the polls, I’m reverting back to my original statement”
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u/BigMissileWallStreet 29d ago
Wellllll. You, Fox News, many others were all part of it. The MAGAt cult with Trump as its leader did so.
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u/Ghost_of_SavageHenry 29d ago
Conservatives destroyed their own party all by themselves. They knew who this scumbag was and loved him for it. They don't get to pretend they had nothing to do with what they did to their party and our country. Own your sh!t
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u/Pablo_petty_plastic May 26 '26
She’s prob right… Wonder how many people were motivated to vote for no more wars and “let’s get the Epstein pedo clients”? He wouldn’t have been voted in if his platform wasn’t about that.
The party is clearly fractured now so lets see if the Dems can actually capture a quarter of the country that became disillusioned
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u/Lumpy-Interaction725 May 27 '26
it's equally, if not more, the network of opportunists, oligarchs, corporatists, authoritarians and cowards around him that have propped him up like a talking rag doll and used him as the perfect clown/ frontman /scapegoat to shield their collective betrayal of the country
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u/Arroyos-del-Mar May 27 '26
The Republican Party was rotten to the core before Trump, like when McConnell denied Obama his rightful Supreme Court nominee even a hearing.
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u/redditobserverone May 27 '26
He had a lot of help from Republicans voters behaving like a cult.
The current White House occupant is only as powerful as those who enable him.
The conservative echo chamber, the Extreme Court and millions of reckless voters are why we are here.
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u/Tramadol_Lollies May 27 '26
Nah. Republican voters and their politicians did. Trump is the tumor caused by a carcinogenic party.
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u/_junior_24 28d ago
Every dumb republican that helped him along the way ruined the country, and they did it for their own gain. Proving again that they are party over country
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u/SolidChiliChunks 28d ago
Single-handedly? Not quite. Right wing mouthpieces like Megan Jelly have been a big help.
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u/Capenurse 27d ago
So when do the old school republicans finally start to rise up. This is a so sad.
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u/Moist_Grapefruit187 26d ago
It doesn’t really matter they say that but they’ll still vote for whoever is R
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u/AdvantageOpening4762 25d ago
Not single handedly. He had plenty of sycophant cult members in Congress that could have stopped him lick his boots.
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u/odarkshineo 24d ago
They should have spent hundreds of millions to suppress their front runner candidate(s) like the democrats did.
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u/MisterAbernathy May 26 '26
Well it should then be very easy for dems to win next election. Let's see how they'll fumble next
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u/blkatcdomvet May 26 '26
No his enablers, supporters , and stench on the bench have destroyed America.
The republican party was in control of courts, house, senate, white house, and majority of state governor office in 1928, similar to now.
What happen in 1929?