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By JEREMY W. PETERS at the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/politics/trump-third-party-republican.html?_r=0
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Before Trump, I saw the ongoing battle between what I would call the pragmatic governing wing and the purists that was the litmus test issue, said Representative Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Republican who announced last week that he was retiring, in part because he was fed up with the gridlock and infighting in Congress.
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Now, since Trump, Mr. Dent added, the issue has become, more or less, Trump loyalty.
Representative Dave Brat, the Virginia Republican who unseated Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, in 2014, said the rise of anti-establishment figures like Mr. Trump on the right and Senator Bernie Sanders on the left showed the desire for disruption in both parties. But that disruption has been slow going in Congress, much to the irritation of voters who have little loyalty to the Democratic or Republican brands.
That is the new movement Bernie through Trump, Mr. Brat said. It hasnt permeated Congress, and thats why everybody is ticked.
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applegrove
(118,759 posts)to shake things up.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)I thought that would be the end of the reps....I guess I was wrong....
I hope nobody splinters the Dem party.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)Make Ed Gein's birthday a national holiday!
We need a blue-ribbon commission to investigate Obama's role in the Roswell cover-up!
Can women really become pregnant from rape? Schools should teach the controversy!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)One that isn't called "Republican." I mean, it's got "pub" in the middle of it, but there's no free beer, so it's, like, false advertising.