"The problem is not just Donald Trump; it's the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. We're thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trump's Republican enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to do as Toren Beasley did: vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former)."
Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes at The Atlantic argue that "[i]f conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees."
And James Fallows searches for an appropriate name for the age of Trump.
Monday, February 05, 2018
"The Republican Party, as an Institution, Has Become a Danger to the Rule of Law and the Integrity of Our Democracy"
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