‘Normalized A Sociopath’: George Conway Tells ‘Sad Story’ That Led To Trump’s Win | EUROtoday

George Conway on Thursday mirrored 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 lawyer instructed 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 varied checks and balances, Conway famous, “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 however has grow to be a fierce critic of the president-elect. Last yr, he divorced Kellyanne Conway, a senior counselor in Trump’s White House who managed his 2016 marketing 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 mentioned 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 mentioned. “But they’re going to be sorely disappointed.”

Exit polls mirrored that many citizens turned to Trump due to their frustrations with excessive inflation and the price of dwelling.

Trump blustered through the marketing campaign that inflation would “vanish completely” if voters put him again in cost. But many economists warned that Trump’s insurance policies would probably worsen inflation.

Conway additionally spoke out in regards to the election leads to an op-ed for The Atlantic on Wednesday headlined, “America Did This To Itself.”

The subheading learn: “And now we must suffer through it.”