The Republican Party is already an autocratic cult around Donald Trump.

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House Awareness Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that the Republican Party has become an autocratic cult around Donald Trump. Schiff gave the description in an interview with CBS Face the Nation after host Margaret Brennan asked about the way Democrats are chasing legislation that only fellow party members will support. Again it looked at people at home like, they can’t get along, the washingtons don’t work again, Brennan said. But Schiff said the current volatility is just a product of what the Republican Party has become.

The Republican Party is not interested in governance, Schiff said. Not interested in even maintaining the solvency of the country’s credit worthiness. And we must acknowledge that they are not interested in management. And so to govern, has to do it. And if we have to do it with our own votes, we will do it.

WATCH: @RepAdamSchiff tells @margbrennan that the Republican party is an “autocratic cult around Donald Trump” and not “interested in governing” or “maintaining the country’s solvency.” pic.twitter.com/f2doChgscP

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Schiff went on to say that the Republican Party has completely abandoned its ideology. Instead, it has become a counter-fact, anti-democratic cult of the former president. Schiff said there is a possibility of another attack on the Capitol in the future but that’s not what worries him the most. But what is a more compelling threat is what we see Republicans doing across the country, taking this big lie about the last election and running with it, he said.

Schiff said it was certainly the enthusiasm that drove him to write his new memoir, Midnight in Washington. I want to tell the story in this book about how- how it happens, how in four short years our democracy has become so threatened? he said. Schiff said one of the terrible realizations he had during the Trump presidency was that the people he respected proved to be more interested in power than anything else. One of the terrible things to realize for me is that there are so many people I’ve worked with across the aisle, which I admire and respect because I believe they believe what they’re saying, don’t really believe it, Schiff said. That the only thing that cares for them is the maintenance of their power or position.

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