Trump and MAGA Have Killed The Republican Party | A Conversation with
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Since the era of Trump and the rise of MAGA, the new age of Republicans are an embarrassment to their predecessors. Steve Schmidt sits down with Dean Blundell to talk about the fall of the GOP and the legacy of John McCain.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You and I have talked privately about John McCain. |
| 0:07.7 | No, but I want to ask you a question because I think this is important. |
| 0:12.6 | The Republican Party doesn't have any more John McCain's. |
| 0:16.9 | You know, like leave the Democratic Party aside in their fecklessness. |
| 0:21.0 | But John McCain, God bless the man's memory. |
| 0:26.1 | God bless his moral turptitude. |
| 0:29.7 | God bless his ability to stand up in front of an entire country and take his POW-ridden arms and post thumbs down. |
| 0:39.6 | That day he voted against his dear leader, |
| 0:42.8 | who he did not buy into all the time. |
| 0:45.7 | And I know, listen, your Mondays with Lizza are like mandatory watching everybody. |
| 0:52.0 | If you don't subscribe to Steve or ryan lizzie tell us you have to |
| 0:55.8 | you guys talk about the democrats um you know inability to do anything for the american people because |
| 1:02.5 | they're still so institutionalized but i push back and i look at the the republican side of this |
| 1:08.4 | there is no john mccain in the republican party and because there is no John McCain in the Republican Party. And because there is no John McCain in the Republican Party, because Mitt Romney has effectively been clipped, and because no one really gives a shit about anything on the GOP side of this equation other than keeping their black car and their stipends and their expense accounts. |
| 1:28.9 | You have literally an army of willing assholes who will do anything that Donald Trump wants |
| 1:35.1 | him to do. And I would, I would question that. I would pose that to you, you know, |
| 1:40.6 | where are the John McCain's of this world in this party, someone that, you know, you ran his campaign, someone that you respect, someone that, you know, you take it on biased look at John McCain, it doesn't matter who you voted for, that fucking guy's an American hero who stood up for the virtues of what America should be, who stood up to Vladimir Putin, called it a |
| 2:01.4 | fucking gas station. Russia, called it a gas station. And I would ask you that question is that |
| 2:07.6 | what has he been, Trump, been so effective at at rooting out any kind of, you know, character |
| 2:14.8 | from the Republican Party because we don't have any more John McCain's. |
| 2:20.5 | And that to me is a fucking travesty. |
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