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This escalation of the anti-Trump fight, coming during the formative months of the young Biden presidency, has made it harder for the Republican Party to mount coherent opposition to an administration beset by problems.
“Look at what’s happening on [President] Biden’s watch: inflation, gas shortages, companies can’t fill job openings, border crisis,” said Scott Jennings, a GOP strategist with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “We have to get focused on pushing back against Biden or we are going to lose this golden opportunity to drive this guy down.”
Many anti-Trump Republicans concede that they have essentially lost the GOP civil war to Trump and that rebuilding without his dominance will be difficult unless the party suffers bruising some electoral defeats. Big political losses in the 1980s and 1990s, for example, cleared the way for President Clinton to steer the Democratic Party to the center, and in Great Britain for Ton
Just the Trump party: Liz Cheney s demotion proves Trump still rules Republican politics, experts say David Jackson, USA TODAY UP NEXT
WASHINGTON – By choosing to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership, Republicans showed Wednesday they will move forward as Donald Trump s party, experts said, and Trump s myth of the stolen election of 2020 might as well be a plank in the campaign platform.
Cheney, R-Wyo., lost her position as the third-ranking House Republican after she unapologetically argued the party should move past Trump and stop echoing his debunked claim that a fraudulent election cost him the presidency.
The decision to remove Cheney as House Republican Conference chair – little more than three months after Republicans voted to keep her in the job – sets up a future in which GOP candidates will campaign as Trump acolytes and carry on his protests over his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
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Trumpism is destroying democracy in the US, according to a former aide to Mike Pence.
Olivia Troye told MSNBC that Republican attempts to oust Trump s critics were a horrifying and scary prospect.
All of these bad actors. [are] actively destroying the fundamentals of our democracy, she said.
Trumpism is actively destroying the fundamentals of our democracy, according to a former senior advisor to Mike Pence.
Olivia Troye, who served as the former Vice President s homeland security adviser, and was on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, told MSNBC on Monday that Trumpism has got a hold of the country right now, adding that it was a horrifying and scary prospect.