Mo Brooks Quotes
The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.
Brooks, Mo. Interview. The Huntsville Times, Advance Publications, 2011.
The Republicans had been badly beaten in the 2012 Presidential Election. Many attributed the loss to the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the Republican ideas which had become more and more conservative in recent decades. Others, like Rubio, wanted to maintain the existing ideas which were very different from the Republican ideas earlier when they won more elections.
The Tea Party Republican faction was opposed to government doing much of anything other than Defense and Foreign Policy. The regular Republicans saw a much more extensive and robust role of government though few did so to the same extent as Abraham Lincoln and the other founders of the Republican Party, and Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower the Republicans following in the Alexander Hamilton tradition.
He was discussing how to move the Republican Party to the extreme right. on a 2010 interview with Political Vindication Radio, and extreme California Radio Talk Show. Six years later he became Donald Trump’s Campaign CEO and after Trump won, he became the President’s Chief Policy Advisor. He was much closer to “taking it over”—the Republican Party.
Morris Jackson "Mo" Brooks Jr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, his district is based in Huntsville and stretches across the northern third of the state. In Congress, Brooks is a member of the Freedom Caucus.
