How Trump Sealed the GOP's Suicide
[link:https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/15/how-trump-sealed-the-gops-suicide/|Political Wire
Richard North Patterson: It is barely possible now to imagine the GOP had Trump been different. He came without ideology, propelled by a gift for embodying a potent but undefined populism. He might have become an agent of constructive reinvention, eschewing racism and xenophobia in favor of offering embattled middle-class and blue-collar workers genuine economic uplift. He could have reinstated fiscal responsibility by disdaining tax cuts for the wealthy. He might even have taken stepsif not to drain the swampat least to reform it.
But that would have required real talent, sustained attention, and a genuine interest in governance. Instead this irredeemably vicious, vacant, and narcissistic demagogue unleashed white identity politics and the endless overreach of Republican donors. This leads inexorably to the deadest of endsa demographic death knell for his party and, for our democracy, the most grievous of wounds.