Steele on Jan. 6: The More These Trials Play Out and Those Convictions Come in, It Really Puts the Light on the Shame of the Political Process

RUSH EXCERPT:
STEELE: "Man, this is a wonderful illustration, I think, for your audience — and really, for all of us, to kind of take a closer look at not just the divergence, but that political line, what it really is saying, the stranglehold over time that Donald Trump has had on this party, how in that moment on January 7th, eighth, ninth, you had Republicans speaking with conviction about that moment, being honest, okay, in that moment, but then Donald Trump putting his hand around their throat and collectively choking them all off. Starting with that infamous drive-by, by McCarthy, going down to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee, kiss the ring and anything else he could find in the room. The reality of it is, that was the beginning of this slide. If you look at this chart, that is the beginning of the slide. In that moment, when the then speaker said, you know what? We value the party politics more than the country, and what the country has just gone through, and that the man who is the orchestrator, the architect of this, is more important to my political survivor — survival than the country surviving him. So, that graph is a real good illustration of how the judicial and criminal process moved some of us, frustratingly, limiting how slow it seemed to move at times, but it moves, nonetheless, and appropriately adjudicated those who were brought to be held accountable. Meanwhile, politically, those very same people were not being held accountable. They were on the immediate aftermath, but by the time you get to the point where the national party is hiring election deniers only, you realize, not only did they get on that slippery slope, they slid all the way off of it, and are now finding themselves in a political wasteland going into this election because the more and more these trials play out and those convictions come in, or whatever the consequences may be, it really puts the light on the shame of the political process."