"But we'd be wrong to fixate only on Trump's lies.
He has told plenty. But history will remember Trump for the unvarnished truth he has revealed about the Republican Party, about a toady leadership and manipulative, calculating donors who for decades abused the interests of a seething membership, believing they could always control the rabble – even as they imposed policies that sold them out."
US election 2016: Donald Trump's candidacy set to change the Republican Party
My personal favourite part of the article:
From his eyrie at the Brookings Institution, conservative commentator Robert Kagan makes no attempt to conceal his contempt: "The current Republican Party is unfit to lead the country. It has failed the greatest test a political leader or party can face, and failed spectacularly – it has abandoned its principles out of a combination of cowardice and opportunism; it has worked to place in the White House the most dangerous threat to US democracy since the Civil War; and it has in the process engineered its own suicide."
He has told plenty. But history will remember Trump for the unvarnished truth he has revealed about the Republican Party, about a toady leadership and manipulative, calculating donors who for decades abused the interests of a seething membership, believing they could always control the rabble – even as they imposed policies that sold them out."
US election 2016: Donald Trump's candidacy set to change the Republican Party
My personal favourite part of the article:
From his eyrie at the Brookings Institution, conservative commentator Robert Kagan makes no attempt to conceal his contempt: "The current Republican Party is unfit to lead the country. It has failed the greatest test a political leader or party can face, and failed spectacularly – it has abandoned its principles out of a combination of cowardice and opportunism; it has worked to place in the White House the most dangerous threat to US democracy since the Civil War; and it has in the process engineered its own suicide."
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