- The Illinois Republican admitted on CNN that his fears of a civil war have only grown over the last year, since the Capitol riot and the GOP’s response after
- Kinzinger suggested he could empathize with the anger the rioters felt, believing the election was stolen, which only sharpened his prediction
- In a separate interview, he said he’d tell his newborn son when old enough that Trump was ‘as the worst president the United States of America ever had’
- His and Cheney’s RNC censure has forced inter-party divisions to the surface
- Democrat Chuck Schumer even issued a rare rebuke despite not often wading publicly into GOP affairs, claiming RNC gave its ‘blessing’ to the insurrection
- A poll found that even everyday Americans think divisions have gotten worse