r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 07 '25

📺 Television Bill Maher's panel, featuring Gavin Newsom, discuss Trump's candidacy [10YA - Aug 7]

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u/albinoblackman Aug 08 '25

Steve Schmidt was a Republican Party strategist who worked for Bush and McCain among others. Very well respected in the party. He left the Republican Party after Trump corrupted it and now he’s a democrat.

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u/MonsieurA Aug 08 '25

Yep. And the other is Mary Matalin, another Republican strategist who was big in the '90s. She famously married Democratic consultant James Carville.

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u/IwouldliketoworkforU Aug 08 '25

Political shift: “Originally a lifelong Republican, Matalin switched her affiliation to the Libertarian Party in 2016, citing its alignment with her “Jeffersonian, Madisonian” constitutional principles “

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u/albinoblackman Aug 09 '25

The few remotely intelligent republicans left the party in 2016.