Not only did Trump leave an indelible mark on their party, he co-opted its base, which is now primarily loyal to him, not to the GOP as an institution. He also has an immense social media following and writes his…
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Willock and Hitchcock: How the Golden State Became the Intellectual Capital of Trump’s GOP – The American Interest
In the northern half of the state, there’s Victor Davis Hanson, the celebrated Hoover Institution classicist who has favorably described Trump as a “D-11 bulldozer blade” against a bankrupt Acela establishment, and Ron Unz, an idiosyncratic Bay Area political activist and…
Paul Waldman: When 2016 is over, the GOP will pretend Donald Trump never existed – The Washington Post
…[J]ust about all Republicans will share an incentive to follow the same path: pretend that Trump and Trumpism never happened, or that it was no different from what we’ve seen in any other election. That goes for Republican voters too.…