Donald Trump may grab all the headlines, but former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh says he’s not the biggest threat to the country. The real danger lies deeper—in the Republican Party itself. While Trump is undeniably a problem, Walsh warns the greater issue is the party’s refusal to hold him accountable and the enablers who keep enabling his destructive behavior.
Walsh, who once proudly wore the Tea Party label but has since left the Republican Party entirely and now registers as a Democrat, has been raising a powerful alarm about the lengths Republicans will go to avoid criticizing Trump.
“If Donald Trump next week began demolishing the Washington Monument—because he wanted to change the structure of the Washington Monument and make it look more like Mar-a-Lago or the shape of a T for Trump or whatever—would any Republican say anything?” Walsh asked pointedly. “I mean that. Would any Republican object? Would anybody on Fox News say, ‘Stop. That’s too far’? Would any of Trump’s voters, any of his MAGA supporters say anything?”
His answer is clear: no one would.
“Donald Trump is demolishing the White House right now as we speak, and no Republican has said anything. No Trump supporter has said anything. Nobody on Fox News or OAN or Newsmax or right-wing talk radio, my former home, has said anything. Donald Trump has basically torn the East Wing of the White House down all by himself, and Republicans haven’t said s—,” Walsh said bluntly.
Trump’s actions, Walsh insists, are horrifying and unprecedented. He calls Trump “an utterly corrupt, dishonest, cruel, ignorant, psychopathic, lawless fascist,” the very kind of leader the Founders feared. But the real catastrophe, he says, is that Trump’s enablers in the Republican Party have allowed this to happen.
“You see, Trump is a problem, a big problem. He’s everything our Founders feared. But the much, much, much, much, much bigger problem are all the fascist enablers—every enabler and appeaser over the years, these past 10 years, who have allowed Trump to do what he does,” Walsh wrote. “Trump could not be demolishing the White House as we speak if his enablers didn’t let him.”
Walsh highlights several grave examples:
“Trump would not be demanding $230 million from the Justice Department if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump could not have tried to overthrow an American election if his enablers didn’t let him. Trump couldn’t have dismantled USAID, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children around the world, if his enablers had not let him. Trump couldn’t be going after and trying to imprison his political opponents if his enablers did not let him.”
For Walsh, Trump’s behavior is only half the story. The bigger issue lies in the Republican Party’s refusal to stand up to him—even as his actions undermine democracy and cause real-world harm.
In other words, the danger isn’t just Trump. It’s the entire Republican Party, enabling and defending a lawless leader at the country’s expense.
