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Da Kine 17, What I’ve Gained by Leaving the Republican Party

"The Democrats' generational battle"

I’m more willing to listen to those I once thought didn’t have much to teach me.

February 6, 2019
Peter Wehner

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Today I see the Republican Party through the clarifying prism of Donald Trump, who consistently appealed to the ugliest instincts and attitudes of the GOP base—in 2011, when he entered the political stage by promoting a racist conspiracy theory, and in 2016, when he won the GOP nomination. He’s done the same time and time again during his presidency—his attacks on the intelligence of black politicians, black journalists, and black athletes; his response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia; and his closing argument during the midterm elections, when he retweeted a racist ad that even Fox News would not run.

It would be deeply unfair to claim that most Republicans are bigots. But it is fair to say that most Republicans today are willing to tolerate without dissent, and in many cases enthusiastically support, a man whose appeal is based in large part on stoking racial and ethnic resentments, on attacking “the other.” That has to be taken into account. At a minimum, their moral reflexes have been badly dulled.

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"“People need to understand that the Democrat Party today is not the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy.""

Of course both parties are not the same as they were 60 years ago. Would hope not. Most importantly Trump has turned
the Republican party into a vestige of it's more recent former self. Once a party with some conservative integrity. No more.

Max Boot - I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over.
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WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH REPUBLICANS?
Trump has given them another chance to break away. Why won’t they take it?
By Peter Wehner
Sept. 30, 2019
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