History Quote by Steve Schmidt
“What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have put a check on him. They have gotten their place in political history. They'll be remembered as vile.”
![“Part of the reason [Donald Trump] destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa5/hillary-clinton-51_agree_part-of-the-reason-donald-trump-destroye_290382.jpg)
![“Republican party leaders have been worrying about the damage a [Donald] Trump nomination could do to the party, but also what might happen if he left the GOP and took his supporters with him. But Trump said he would stay a Republican and do everything in his power to beat Hillary Clinton.” quote by Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/713/ted-cruz-487_beats_republican-party-leaders-have-been-worry_1082665.jpg)
![“To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.” quote by Alec Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/654/alec-baldwin-4355_decent_to-me-the-republican-party-is-the-real-g_2389762.jpg)
