I think you may have the causality mistaken. It was the degradation of the Republican Party (since Gingrich/Buchanan) that led to Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause.
I think you may have the causality mistaken. It was the degradation of the Republican Party (since Gingrich/Buchanan) that led to Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause.
Gringich, Limbaugh, et .al., tilled the soil, but it was the emergence of the disgraced ex-president, in my view, that caused the rot to spread throughout the entire party establishment with the notable exception of only two party members.
It's hard to see any of his competitors in the party doing what he has done.
I think you may have the causality mistaken. It was the degradation of the Republican Party (since Gingrich/Buchanan) that led to Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause.
Gringich, Limbaugh, et .al., tilled the soil, but it was the emergence of the disgraced ex-president, in my view, that caused the rot to spread throughout the entire party establishment with the notable exception of only two party members.
It's hard to see any of his competitors in the party doing what he has done.