The Republican Party Isn’t A Political Party
Why the GOP Can’t Get Rid of Donald Trump.
Last month, Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle wrote a fiery essay on former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. In the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid by the FBI over classified documents that Trump had in his possession she wrote it is time for the GOP to block him from running in 2024. She warns the party to do something about the Orange King before it’s too late:
Reality check, friends. Donald Trump isn’t going away unless you make him. And unless you make him, he will continue sullying the party with his scandals, sacrificing its standards and, increasingly, its electoral chances on the altar of his rapacious ego. However temporarily expedient cooperation might seem, in the long run, it’s the most dangerous course.
I’ve been fascinated over the years since Donald Trump glided down the golden escalator in 2015 how many people on the left and right tend to say that the Republicans don’t stand up to Trump. The belief is that if more GOP lawmakers actually stood up to Trump, then maybe he wouldn’t have had such a hold on the party. In fact, former blogger Nick Catotaggio said as much in a recent column for the Dispatch.
But I think that line of thinking is wrong. There have been a number of Republican…
