George Conway: Republicans Don’t Have a Ronald Reagan Anymore, ‘We Have Tony Soprano’

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CONWAY: “Oh, I definitely think that it’s one reason. I mean, what we have here isn’t traditional conservatism. It isn’t traditional Republicanism. It is authoritarianism. But I think a better word for it, as I think about it, one that more people can understand, is gangsterism, thugism. We don’t have Ronald Reagan anymore. We have Tony Soprano. He’s holding people up, threatening them, bullying them, doing things that are beyond his legal power to do and that’s — that scares people. It makes people pay protection money. We see Harvard possibly knuckling under to pay $500 million. We see these chip makers who are essentially saying OK, take money from us. And we see the intimidation of people who have had the courage, like Miles, to speak out and criticize the president. And he, you know, there is no limit to how low he will go and what he will do to intimidate and to threaten and to assert power over things.”