George Conway on Thursday reflected on Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, saying it was preceded by “a long and sad story that I think historians will be studying for decades, if not centuries.”
“We normalized a sociopath. We normalized a criminal,” the conservative attorney told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. “We became used to a person who has no belief in the rule of law, no belief in democracy … unless he wins, no belief in anything other than himself.”
While a constitutional system has various checks and balances, Conway noted, “At the end of the day, it can’t tell a free people not to vote for someone who might take away their freedoms, or someone who might take away their democracy, or … who lead misleads them and demagogues their way to high office.”
He added, “It’s something that unfortunately has happened in democracies before in human history, and it’s not good.”
Conway supported Trump in 2016 but has become a fierce critic of the president-elect. Last year, he divorced Kellyanne Conway, a senior counselor in Trump’s White House who managed his 2016 campaign.
On Thursday, he reiterated his warning that he believes Trump is “unwell psychologically” and “deteriorating quite rapidly.”
“It’s not going to turn out very well,” he said of the Republican’s presidency.
“Maybe there are voters who have convinced themselves that the price of eggs is somehow something that Trump will actually be able to fix and restore back to what it was five years ago,” he said. “But they’re going to be sorely disappointed.”
Exit polls reflected that many voters turned to Trump because of their frustrations with high inflation and the cost of living.
Trump blustered during the campaign that inflation would “vanish completely” if voters put him back in charge. But many economists warned that Trump’s policies would likely worsen inflation.
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Conway also spoke out about the election results in an op-ed for The Atlantic on Wednesday headlined, “America Did This To Itself.”
The subheading read: “And now we must suffer through it.”