Thursday, May 02, 2019

"Trump Is Just the Symptom—the Republican Party Is the Disease"

"If Biden, Lockhart, other establishment Democrats, and some Republicans like Mitt Romney truly want to encourage the return of the party of Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, and George Romney, they need to clearly and forcefully identify where the Republican Party went astray. The truth is, what hijacked the GOP wasn't Trump, it was the conservative movement. And it didn't happen in 2016; it happened in 1980. 'Saving' the GOP will mean repudiating not just Trumpism, but Reaganism."

John Long at The New Republic argues that "[t]his notion, that Trump is somehow an alien figure who has, Svengali-like, hypnotized the GOP, is a comforting fallacy."

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