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LadiesandgentlementheWhigs
DEC
19
2020 - The postwar world: An election's truth and consequences
By:
Michael E. Ross
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DEC
19
THE PREVAILING wisdom in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election is that, by accident and on purpose, Donald John Trump remains the black-hole sun at the center of the Republican party universe. Within the GOP, there’s no credibility without him. And a large number of party loyalists – not just the 126 House Republicans who signed on to Trump’s fatal gambit to overturn the outcome of the election – are irreversibly subservient to the soon-to-be former president. Donald Trump is the isolationist, white-supremacist hill they will die on. And for a party whose identity was already in turmoil – witness the desperation of leadership that helped make Trump the 2016 Republican nominee in the first place – the GOP’s fealty to Trump could be the sign of a party facing that next worst existential crisis: having no future at all.Mainstream Republicans in Congress have been in lockstep with Trump, only sometimes reluctantly, for the las
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