Much of the political reporting this week has acknowledged and engaged with the fact that the Republican Party is now fully captive to Donald Trump and his cult of personality to a degree it wasn’t in his two prior runs for the White House. That’s an important baseline from which to cover the rest of this campaign and a possible Trump II presidency.
~ David Kurtz, TPM Morning Memo
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It’s not just that the GOP will emerge from the Trump era with a brand so badly damaged that it will need to be scrapped, it’s that there is likely to be little left except of it that is recognizable as a political party in a democratic and pluralistic society. Having become so cultish and thoroughly authoritarian, there won’t be the pieces to pick up again to reform it and restore it as a pro-democracy party. Trump has wrecked it.
~ David Kurtz, TPM Morning Memo
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