Mark Penn: People Want to See Trump’s Policies and ‘Weather They Are Going to Work or Not’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
CHAFFETZ: “Mark, Scott brings up a good point here. They seem to resist everything. Their whole strategy is just to resist. These same people were out there advocating to get rid of gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles, now you have people protesting Tesla dealerships and charging stations. They can’t seem to make up their mind. Just because it is Trump and Elon, I think the overwhelming majority of people look at that and say, what are you for? What you actually stand for is a party?”

Penn: “And in 2016, the resistance was somewhat effective because President Trump was new to the presidency. But this time around, President Trump has hit the ground running. He won the popular vote, Democrats have kind of looked back and they said you know, Biden really was a a week president. Some of these positions like having an open border were really crazy. All of this spending that generated inflation really hurt. So I think in retrospect, they looked back you’re on everything and they wondered how they could possibly have supported it. I think Trump is still — he is in the 50 percent, 52% rating. People are still waiting to see improve on what he’s doing but there’s still a lot of support for policies like deporting criminals. I think you see this party is in the wilderness right now, it is going to be in the wilderness for a while, it is much better off looking for some areas where it could cooperate, not try to run the resistance playbook again because the truth of the matter is that people want to see Trump’s policies and weather they are going to work or not. They don’t want resistance, they want cooperation and collaboration and bipartisanship. And that is why Schumer did the right thing when he didn’t shut down the government. He was protecting the party from an even worse debacle and it would have been worse because you know how Republicans know what happens when you shut down the government. Nothing good for the party that does. So look, I think there is going to be a war within the party, it will take until the primaries and may be another Bill Clinton will come out of this party and maybe not.”