Despite losing the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump remains the leader of the Republican Party. Some polls indicate that Trump may be in a position to win the 2024 election. However, Trump’s far-right politics have also divided the Republican Party, complicating governance and policy decisions.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey argues that as long as Trump and his MAGA brand are at the helm, the GOP will continue to compromise its principles.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
But if you look at the dysfunction of Republicans, they are taking the body politic away from the nuance of actual debate, the nuance of policy, and it is devolving into personality only, into branding only. You see, they would prefer you to purchase a brand. They want you to vote for a personality. There’s a reason why the platform no longer highlights the actual political ideology, the platform of the Republican Party, they don’t talk about it. What happened to being a fiscal conservative? What happened to the Christian evangelical movement inside of the Republican Party that said this was about morality, this is about ethics?
Well, that’s because Trump is the guy who’s in charge of the Republican Party, de facto, and in fact, he can’t be the moral and ethical guy. It’s impossible. So what has happened? Republicans have decided to eliminate the reality of what politics should always be about: You. You. Policy is about you. What is policy at the end of the day? Policy is the socio-economic contract between the community and the citizen. That is how it should work. Community, citizen-government — however you determined — these factors require good policy to coexist.
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