NationofChange Trumpledâa fable about the party that lost its principles This is a story about a partyâone of two major political parties in Americaâdeclining in popularity and desperately clinging to power. Image Credit: Sarah Grillo/Axios The determination of so many Republican lawmakers to discard the mountain of evidence against Mr. Trump . . . reflects how thoroughly the party has come to be defined by one man, and how divorced it now appears to be from any deeper set of policy aspirations and ethical or social principles. What follows is a fable based on real events. Like the sheep in a popular old nursery rhyme, the party that lost its principles doesnât know where to find them. A fable is a story meant to teach a moral lesson, in this case a lesson about power and corruption.