MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed that Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake — one of the harshest critics of President Trump — is a “Trumpist” and is almost as bad as Trump by virtue of being a Republican.
Reid lashed out at Flake on Twitter after some Democrats praised him for slamming Trump’s attacks on the media. Flake compared Trump to Stalin but that wasn’t enough for the MSNBC host. Flake, Reid wrote, “Apparently wants to be president, and by that he means a more mannerly Donald Trump. Because if he was president, other than being a Russia toadie, he would pursue every single policy that is destructive to the poor and people of color that Trump has.” (RELATED: Dick Durbin Only Senator To Stay For Jeff Flake’s Anti-Trump Floor Speech [VIDEO])
“He would lubricate the rich and lavish tax cuts and deregulation on rich corporations exactly as Trump has, because those things aren’t ‘Trumpism,’ they are standard Republican policy,” she added. “Jeff Flake and Trump are identical when it comes to stripping vulnerable Americans of healthcare, making it rain for the super rich, and the whole, life-wrecking GOP blue plate special.”
“Ok he wants to be tough on Russia. But giving him credit for what any patriotic, unbought, uncompromised and rational American should believe is like thanking your kids for cleaning their room. That’s what you’re SUPPOSED to do, Senator. So leave me off the Flake praise bandwagon. He is a Trumpist, full stop. Just a more polite version,” she wrote.
“And one last thing: if Jeff Flake is our savior, why is he fleeing the battlefield and quitting the Senate, which he points out is there to check the president? I guess his heroism will be confined to fundraising for his 2020 bid, from the same plutocrats who juiced up Trump,” Reid concluded.