{"id":546981,"date":"2021-05-31T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546981"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:50:23","slug":"fox-news-juan-williams-gop-extremism-poisoning-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-juan-williams-gop-extremism-poisoning-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News&#039; Juan Williams: &#039;GOP Extremism Poisoning Nation&#039;"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffox-news-juan-williams-gop-extremism-poisoning-nation%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=546981&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\/GetFile-637.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News political analyst Juan Williams wrote on Monday that &#8220;extremism among Republicans is paralyzing Congress,&#8221; and &#8220;poisoning the nation,&#8221; in an opinion piece published by <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/556121-juan-williams-gop-extremism-is-poisoning-the-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More and more fights breaking out on airplanes. Why? The short answer is that wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 remains a politically divisive statement,&#8221; wrote Williams, who recently stepped down as co-host of Fox News&#8217;&nbsp;&#8220;The Five,&#8221; but remains on the network as an analyst.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nine killed by gunfire in another mass shooting. Hateful attacks on Jews and Asians rising. All of that happened in the last week,&#8221; he continued, noting that &#8220;Americans should be coming together in celebration of declining coronavirus infections this Memorial Day,&#8221; but &#8220;Instead, the bursts of public violence and hate reflect deep political division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams then references a recent Fox News poll that shows 64% of American voters now &#8220;see political divisions as a major threat to the \u2018stability\u2019 of the nation,&#8221; making it the top threat to the nation in the eyes of voters. He also notes that more than half of Republicans said in a recent CBS\/YouGov poll that Democrats are their &#8220;enemies,&#8221; and a recent Ipsos\/Reuters survey found that most members of the GOP think that &#8220;former President Donald Trump is the \u2018true president,\u2019 and 56% believe the 2020 election was stolen from him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams asks, &#8220;How can so many Republicans still believe the \u2018Big Lie,\u2019 almost five months after&nbsp;President Biden&nbsp;was inaugurated following Congress certifying Biden\u2019s national victory by 74 electoral college votes and more than seven million popular votes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He writes, &#8220;This extremism among Republicans is paralyzing Congress. It can\u2019t find the votes to better regulate guns. It can\u2019t fix a broken immigration system. Similarly, Republicans can\u2019t compromise enough to reach a bipartisan deal to repair the nation\u2019s decrepit infrastructure. Incredibly, Congress can\u2019t even agree on a bill to protect the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week, Congress hit a new low. It blocked a commission to investigate the attempted overthrow of the U.S. government. Now that is dysfunction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams goes on to wonder, &#8220;What are the Republicans so afraid of?&#8221; and &#8220;Why did Senate Minority Leader&nbsp;Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., ask his caucus for a \u2018personal favor,\u2019 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/27\/politics\/mcconnell-personal-favor-block-january-6-commission\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, to vote to stop creation of the commission?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds, &#8220;What Senate Republicans are really avoiding is the truth that Trump\u2019s lies and slash-and-burn, truth-be-damned politics drove some of them to play along with him. They are implicated in the insurrection \u2014 not in a criminal sense, but in a moral sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News political analyst Juan Williams wrote on Monday that &#8220;extremism among Republicans is paralyzing Congress,&#8221; and &#8220;poisoning the nation,&#8221; in an opinion piece published by The Hill. &#8220;More and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313596,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-637.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Fox News&#039; Juan Williams: &#039;GOP Extremism Poisoning Nation&#039;","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-637.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Fox News&#039; Juan Williams: &#039;GOP Extremism Poisoning Nation&#039;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}