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In reply to the discussion: Steve Schmidt on Deadline: White House is absolutely blistering. Watch: [View all]bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)I don't think it's easy for him, all this destruction of the country and his party. He may or may not have been consulted, one side or the other may or may not be too interested in merging the parties' consultants, each has their secret sauce after all, proprietary information, there may be dialogues ongoing here and there. But really, with the transparency of his messages, his dominant cudgel used on Trump, why would you need to pay him anything? You already have sound political advice with no room for blowback, free, in the public airwaves, bar none. I'd suspect old time mainstream Republicans and Democrats forge a better dialogue post-Trump because of this battle and people like Steve Schmidt. These are patriots who know crisis when they see it.