The day after voters dropped a nuclear bomb on the GOP in the midterm elections, many in the punditry were already assessing the blast damage and serving up their opinions on who is to blame; one of them was Megyn Kelly.
The conservative podcaster suggested that when it comes to blame for the epic beating that was inflicted on the Republican Party, President Donald J. Trump is at the top of the list of being responsible for not only the loss of both houses of Congress, but also for handing the Democrats solid majorities, unlike the razor-thin ones that have been held by the GOP.
Kelly broke down the historic disaster on Wednesday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” her SiriusXM show, accusing the president of wrecking the party that he leads, which is now reeling from steep losses that may not be reversed for years or, as some fear, decades.
Megyn Kelly opens her show with a blunt message for the GOP after its midterm wipeout.
Voters said: “F*CK OFF! You have betrayed us!”
She says the GOP “is in ruins, and maybe it needed to be.”
Her advice to Republicans: grow a spine and “not just be puppets of Trump’s.” https://t.co/mybegSqmVO
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“This morning, the Republican Party is in ruins,” she began. “And maybe it needed to be.”
“The choice now for Republicans is to reflect, rebuild, and reinvent in the image of no man,” Kelly continued. “They’re going to have to do it on their own. They’re going to have to learn how to win without daddy on the ballot, and to find their ethical center, and not just be puppets of Trump’s. Not to have their entire political world revolve around Donald Trump.”
“The electorate that turned out, whether you were young or old, black or white, Hispanic, Asian, male or female, Republican or Democrat or independent, told the Republicans they were disgusted with them,” Kelly added. “It wasn’t like ‘you’re mildly annoying, we’re not really in your camp anymore.’ It was ‘F**k off, you have betrayed us, so all bets are off now.’”
She then zeroed in on Trump, whom she has become a frequent critic of.
“No one had any interest or appetite in anything related to Donald Trump; it was a harbinger of things to come,” she told her audience. “Then they showed up and voted last night, and said the same to him: ‘We’re no longer interested in the Trump show. We’re over the antics, the grift, the making money off of the backs of the American people who just wanted you to help them’.”
Kelly also lamented Trump’s second term as a “missed opportunity.”
“To surround yourself with a field of grifters who want to make money off of the presidency as opposed to serve, be actual public servants in a humble role that was never meant to make someone a million or billionaire,” she said.
“It’s incredibly disheartening, and it’s such a missed opportunity. It’s such a missed opportunity by this president, who had the world at his feet, in his hands, who had so many of us believing in him,” Kelly continued.
She also encouraged the GOP to move on but to retain the positive aspects of the MAGA agenda.
“But the Republicans have an opportunity here,” Kelly said. “I do believe that this is finally the chance for the Republican Party to not throw away MAGA core ideals, which are good, which are important, and which Trump should be credited for thrusting upon the American people who refused to listen to him, upon the political class which refused to listen to people like the working class suffering, but they need to take the good, discard the bad, and come up with a new way forward.”
“And they’re going to have to find their own new, charismatic, honest, ethical leader. You can’t ride the Trump coattails anymore. They are non-existent. He cannot save you,” she advised.
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