The denunciations are based far more on personality than policy. They simply don’t trust his character or his judgment.
“I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”
That warning comes not from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris — or any Democrat, for that matter. It comes from Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and closely observed the president from her post near the Oval Office. She is only one of many former Trump aides and advisers who now despise the former president and view his possible return to the White House with grave alarm.
“These are folks who saw him up close and personal and saw his leadership style,” Sarah Matthews, a former deputy White House press secretary, told The Associated Press. “The American people should listen to what these folks are saying because it should be alarming that the people that Trump hired to work for him a first term are saying that he’s unfit to serve for a second term.”
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said in USA Today that this level of resentment and rejection among a White House staff is totally unprecedented: “To see this many people coming out of an administration they worked for saying, ‘danger, don’t let that guy anywhere near the White House again, it will put our democracy in peril,’ it’s a stunning thing.”
Of course, the vast majority of Republicans remain deeply loyal to Trump. During the GOP primaries, he received more than 17 million votes — almost 77% of the total.
