{"id":493197,"date":"2021-05-10T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=493197"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:50:55","slug":"msnbc-guest-al-qaeda-terrorists-have-got-nothing-on-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-guest-al-qaeda-terrorists-have-got-nothing-on-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Guest: Al-Qaeda Terrorists Have \u2018Got Nothing On\u2019 The Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-guest-al-qaeda-terrorists-have-got-nothing-on-the-republican-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=493197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1052643174.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A frequent MSNBC guest said last week that al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden may be bad, but one entity is even worse: the Republican Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former Republican went on to imply that voting to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her post as the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives will supposedly lead to \u201cmore attempts to overthrow our government\u201d and result \u201cin people losing lives, just like January 6th.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe ReidOut,\u201d former Lincoln Project Senior Adviser Kurt Bardella classed the GOP as one of the world\u2019s most destructive terrorist organizations. \u201cYou know, al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, the people who wanted to do harm to our nation and to our way of life and democracy \u2014 they got nothing on what this Republican Party is doing,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Host Joy Reid invited Bardella, a NeverTrump political consultant, to talk about the future of the Republican Party if it replaces Cheney with the Trump supporting Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella claimed the stifling of Cheney\u2019s growing list of anti-GOP grievances would topple American democracy itself. \u201cThe fact that they won\u2019t \u2014 people like Cheney won\u2019t support the great lie that this election was rigged or there was voter fraud, the anti-democratic forces are hijacking this party, purging one of the members who won\u2019t abide by the party line. That is so detrimental and dangerous,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella did not explain how putting Liz Cheney\u2019s leadership position up for a vote is \u201canti-democratic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead, he complained that Republicans of Cheney\u2019s variety were vastly outnumbered by Trump supporters. \u201cI don\u2019t think there are enough people who are willing to stand up to this iteration of the Republican Party to build another party at this point,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, for all of the conversation about Liz Cheney, or Mitt Romney, or Adam Kinzinger, they\u2019re the outliers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said he could not believe the party would eject any member \u201cof their leadership whose last name is Cheney.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen one of the two parties becomes this radicalized, and the core of the party\u2019s ideology is anti-democratic, that is a very dangerous development going on,\u201d Bardella said. \u201cThat\u2019s going to result in more violence. That\u2019s going to result in more attempts to overthrow our government. That\u2019s going to result in people losing lives, just like January 6th.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.103448275862\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thereidout<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoyAnnReid<\/a> segment that &#8220;triggered&#8221; Fox News and their apparently very sensitive viewers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Qaeda, bin Laden, the Taliban, the people who wanted to do harm to our nation and to our way of life &#038; our democracy, they got nothing on what the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GQP?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GQP<\/a> is doing\u2026&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4qGHfNBwat\">pic.twitter.com\/4qGHfNBwat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kurtbardella\/status\/1390330354876264450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are a two-party system in this country. That\u2019s how it was built, for better or worse,\u201d Bardella said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In fact, the Founding Fathers warned against the formation of political parties. Thomas Jefferson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Jefferson\/98-01-02-4451\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cI am no believer in the amalgamation of parties, nor do I consider it as either desirable or useful for the public.\u201d James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed10.asp\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> in <\/span><i><span>Federalist No. 10<\/span><\/i><span> that \u201crival parties\u201d have \u201cinflamed [Americans] with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other.\u201d And in his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/doc.php?flash=false&#038;doc=15&#038;page=transcript\"><span>Farewell Address<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><span>George Washington famously warned his fellow Americans \u201cin the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party,\u201d which is \u201csharpened by the spirit of revenge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella has entertained \u2014 and profited from \u2014 thoughts of revenge against the Republican Party\u2019s conservative base more than once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018, Reid asked Bardella if conservative media will eventually \u201crun out of viewers, because it is appealing to sort of an old kind of crusty, creepy, worldview.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella replied that, \u201cat some point [through] just the process of evolution, some of these viewers, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bigot-joy-reid-launches-vile-attack-conservatives-ryan-saavedra\"><span>they are going to thankfully die off<\/span><\/a><span>, and that\u2019ll be the end of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While claiming to support democratic discourse, Bardella tried to prevent then-President Donald Trump from communicating with the American people in prime time in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liberals-msm-say-networks-shouldnt-air-trump-joseph-curl\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> in USA Today that any TV network that aired a presidential address by Donald Trump \u201cunchallenged and unfiltered\u201d would be \u201ccomplicit in spreading propaganda and disinformation to the American people.\u201d Trump is \u201c<\/span><span>using the airwaves for the sole purpose of lying to the American people about an overtly racist agenda<\/span><span>,\u201d Bardella said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bardella was a Republican until 2017, when he wrote an op-ed saying the only way to save the GOP is by becoming a Democrat. \u201cRebuilding the [Republican] party will require dismantling it. And helping in that cause doesn\u2019t mean becoming an Independent or agitating for a third party,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/2020\/12\/29\/It-s-never-too-late-to-become-a-Democrat\/stories\/202012290022\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He served as senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, which proved profitable. By last October, the NeverTrump operation had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meet-the-democratic-donors-who-helped-enrich-the-lincoln-project-grifters\"><span>given<\/span><\/a><span> Bardella\u2019s Endeavor Strategies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpyers\/status\/1316360701779222529\/photo\/1\"><span>$153,439<\/span><\/a><span> in consulting fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In February, Bardella <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/steve-schmidt-resigns-from-the-lincoln-project-releases-statement-claiming-he-was-molested-at-13\"><span>resigned<\/span><\/a><span> from the Lincoln Project after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lincoln-project-co-founder-admits-to-sending-inappropriate-messages-to-men\"><span>numerous men<\/span><\/a><span>, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deplorable-and-predatory-behavior-the-lincoln-project-condemns-cofounder-after-nyt-reports-he-allegedly-sexually-harassed-14-year-old-boy\"><span>young as 14<\/span><\/a><span>, accused co-founder <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2015\/06\/john-kasich-just-hired-a-strategist-who-has-waged-war-on-conservative-christians\/\"><span>John Weaver<\/span><\/a><span> of grooming and sexually harassing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One day before he quit, Bardella <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/lincoln-project-kurt-bardella-jennifer-horn-messages\"><span>posted private text messages<\/span><\/a><span> between another of the project\u2019s co-founders, Jennifer Horn and reporter Amanda Becker, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/lincoln-project-twitter-jennifer-horn\"><span>accusing<\/span><\/a><span> Horn of collaborating in \u201ca smear job on the Lincoln Project.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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