George Conway expressed his outrage at President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to police Washington, D.C., in an interview on MSNBC.

GEORGE CONWAY: I mean, what we have here isn’t traditional conservatism. It isn’t traditional republicanism. It is authoritarianism. But I think a better word for it, as I think about it, one that more people can understand, is gangsterism, thugism. We don’t have Ronald Reagan anymore. We have Tony Soprano. He’s holding people up, threatening them, bullying them, doing things that are beyond his legal power to do. And that scares people. It makes people pay protection money. We see Harvard possibly knuckling under to pay $ 500 million. We see these chip makers who are essentially saying, OK, take money from us. And we see the intimidation of people who have had the courage, like Miles, to speak out and criticize the president. And there is no limit to how low he will go and what he will do to intimidate and to threaten and to assert power over things. I mean, the only issue, the only way you kind of get around it is he focuses on something else for a little while, and then maybe you can be left alone for a bit. And that’s the problem here, is people are doing this, are fighting back or not fighting back, because they’re behaving like they’re in silos. The only way this stops is if people all get together, people of different stripes, people who are in industry, people who are in politics, people who are in universities get together and say, enough. None of us are going to give in to this. And that’s how this ends.

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