CNN —Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP.
In another excerpt, Romney expressed alarm at how prominent storylines in the right-wing media space demonized people that he believed should have been celebrated, such as an Olympian struggling with mental health.
The warped political environment made Romney, once the archetype of its traditional conservative values, an outcast to right-wing media figures, which after a brief civil war, wholly embraced Trump following his election.
But the call didn’t go well, with Hannity scolding Romney and accusing him of making certain comments to appease the mainstream press.
“You’re just doing this because you want to get praise on MSNBC!” Hannity told Romney, according to the book.
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