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NYT Columnist Predicts Post-Trump Battle For Soul Of The GOP

NYT Columnist Predicts Post-Trump Battle For Soul Of The GOP

Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, on Monday predicted a brutal battle for the soul of the GOP once Donald Trump is no longer president.

The pundit and author, talking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, foresaw Republicans fighting like “scorpions in a bottle” to seize control of the party. And the process was necessary, he said, to root out the “craziness” within the GOP under Trump.

“I think the most important thing is that that party fracture, because the reason these ideas scaled was actually the party was split inside the Republican party,” Friedman explained. “But because they had the White House and the Senate they were able to paper over a lot, cement over a lot of those splits with goodies.”

“They will not have the Senate. They will not have the White House,” he noted. “You are about to see, I believe, conflict within that party. I mean, it will be scorpions in a bottle. And that’s actually healthy because that fight has to happen. Because when that happens, if they are out of power for a while, there’s nothing that cures crazy ideas in Washington more than being out of power.” 

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