Rep. Troy Nels (R-Texas) flipped on former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s criticism of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Moreover, Trump has lost “a lot of seats” in his party in recent years, added Ryan, who currently sits on the board of Fox Corp.
Nehls, a Trump loyalist who wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the former president’s mugshot to attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, was outraged by Ryan’s recent criticism of Trump, who was convicted in a hush trial last month. .
CNN’s Manu Raja reported that Nehls told him:
“Paul Ryan you are trash. You are trash and we need to kick you out of the party. Don’t just pout and say you’re conservative. You are spitting in the face of our party leader. It means growing a little more.”
Ruth Bengiat, an expert on authoritarianism, professor of history at New York University, and author of “The Lecturer: From Mussolini to the Present,” compared this to “the way fascists talk.”
She added to X, formerly Twitter: “Same goes for gangsters. The categories overlap.”
