Challengers warn of totalitarian drift in party
Martin Pengelly in New York
Sat 14 Sep 2019 10.19 EDT
First published on Sat 14 Sep 2019 09.49 EDT
The Republican party has taken “a wrong turn” under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to totalitarianism as states cancel primaries in an attempt to give Trump an unimpeded path to the nomination in 2020.
In a joint opinion column for the Washington Post, Mark Sanford, Joe Walsh and Bill Weld noted that “the Democratic primary challengers are still engaged in a heated competition of debates, caucuses and primaries to give their voters in every corner of our country a chance to select the best nominee”.
They asked: “Do Republicans really want to be the party with a nominating process that more resembles Russia or China than our American tradition?” ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/14/2020-trump-challengers-say-republican-party-has-taken-a-wrong-turn
"Whoa, dude! The party of Russian stooges doesn't like democracy!"
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