Nobody – Not Even Fox News – Can Get a Republican on Air to Defend Trump

This one minute clip does a perfect job summarizing what cable news looks like right now.

Republicans keep hiding when networks ask them to come on and defend Trump pic.twitter.com/f7AM3bweRg

— Leanne Naramore (@LeanneNaramore) August 17, 2017

Usually, it’s not difficult to get any politician to come on cable news and deliver a set of talking points to push some agenda they’re currently working on (or just simple self-promotion since they’re always raising money). But no one—not a single member of the president’s party—will go on air and defend Trump’s defense of “some very fine people” amongst a crowd of torch wielding neo-Nazi’s in Charlottesville. President Trump has never been more separated from the Republican Party, and based on his tweets this morning defending confederate monuments and attacking Lindsey Graham, it doesn’t look like he will close that gap any time soon.

Jacob Weindling is a staff writer for Paste politics. Follow him on Twitter at @Jakeweindling.