President Donald Trump’s wanton demolition of the White House symbolizes everything wrong with American politics—But there’s a “much, much, much bigger” problem lurking beneath the surface, an ex-GOP lawmaker has warned.

Republicans who enable Trump and refuse to criticize his blatantly corrupt and illegal behavior represent a much larger threat to democracy than the president himself, former Tea Party congressman turned Democrat Joe Walsh wrote on Thursday.

Using the destruction of the White House’s East Wing as an example, Walsh asked, “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?”

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