Lawler’s Inability to Break From Trump Should Alarm Voters

Only two days after Rep. Mike Lawler castigated Democrats on “Meet the Press” for calling Donald Trump a “fascist,” Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly told The Atlantic that Trump fit just that definition.

Putting aside whether Kelly would bristle at being labeled a Democrat, it’s clear that Lawler simply cannot distance himself from Trump – on anything. Only yesterday, he refused to condemn any of Trump’s words or actions in his debate against Mondaire Jones on WCBS-TV.

Lawler will never be a guardrail against Trump’s Project 2025, his abortion ban, his cozying up to Putin or the use of the military against U.S. citizens. He has yet to call out Donald Trump for Jan. 6, or criticize Trump’s plan to pardon the convicted insurrectionists. In fact, when asked on Showtime’s “The Circus” how he responds to those like Trump who say it was a peaceful demonstration, here’s what Lawler said: “Everybody has their interpretation and their spin.”

Interpretation? Mr. Lawler, how exactly do you interpret a police officer being bludgeoned with a flagpole?

Mondaire Jones was in the House chamber when the mob attacked, and has excoriated Trump for trying to violently overturn the results of the 2020 election, for denying climate change, for using racist language against one ethnicity after another and for claiming that if he loses, it will be the fault of the Jews.

As Vice President Harris said yesterday, in a second Trump term, “People like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against [Trump’s] actions.”

And while Trump promises retribution against his enemies and praises Hitler – indeed, as he goes off the rails – a stable Congress must serve as America’s guardrail. Mike Lawler is either unable, or even worse, unwilling, to serve in that capacity.

Richard Mermelstein

Scarsdale

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