What happened to the Republican Party? You’ve heard of it: One of the two major political collectives in America… the one that counts Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan among its heroes?
The modern GOP branded itself on ideals of fiscal responsibility, fighting dictators from the Soviet Union to Saddam Hussein, and personal morality.
Today, of course, the U.S. deficit is more than $1 trillion. New age dictators are our friends. And personal morality? Well, not so much.
The GOP change has been swift, stark, and you might be led to believe, all because of one person: Donald Trump.
But is that true? Was Trump the cause or the most logical outcome? Perhaps more importantly, is there any going back? Is the GOP now the POT – the Party of Trump?
That’s what I asked Tim Alberta, Politico Magazine’s Chief Political Correspondent and author of “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump.”
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John Della Volpe, Harvard Institute of Politics
Susan Demas, Inside Michigan Politics
Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News
Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa
Adam Smith, Tampa Bay Times
Elizabeth Wilner, Kantar Media Ad Intelligence
John Maginnis, LAPolitics.com
Geoff Garin, Democratic pollster at Hart Research
Rob Christensen, Raleigh News and Observer
Skip Rutherford, Clinton School of Public Service
Anna Greenberg, Democratic pollster of the year 2013
Lynn Bartels, Denver Post
James Pindell, WMUR
Nicholas Burns, Harvard Kennedy School
Sam Youngman, Lexington Herald Leader
Jim Galloway, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Robert Costa, Washington Post reporter
Nicco Mele, Echo Ditto and Harvard Kennedy School
Robert Shrum, Democratic strategist and NYU Wagner School
Neil Newhouse, Public Opinion Strategies
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