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, including former Trump administration staffers, lauding these people as putting their country over their party and placing policy differences aside to beat former President
But no matter what these people may have said on the convention stage, on cable news, or in their million-dollar books, their break from the Republican Party has as much to do with policy as it does with Trump. Whether they admit it or not, by breaking with the GOP and embracing the Democrats, these people are, in fact, finding their true ideological home in 2024.
And he did it by challenging Republican orthodoxies on a number of policies. The first and most important was repudiating the idea that the party needed to moderate on immigration and embrace amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Then, to top it all off, he pledged to build a wall and “make Mexico pay for it.”
The emergence of a populist wing of the Republican Party was a first for the 21st century GOP, but it proved to be a winning message that resonated everywhere except for Washington, D.C., Wall Street, and San Francisco, propelling Trump to the presidency in 2016. But then Trump roared back from political death and is now in a stronger position to win the presidency than he ever was in his prior two campaigns. This has left the anti-Trump Republicans with three choices: stay silent, vote third party, or publicly endorse President Joe Biden and, later, Kamala Harris.
French said he fears that if Trump were to win, “it will validate his … ideological transformation of the Republican Party.” His position is entirely consistent with his prior public statements. In 2019, he was stillKinzinger, who spoke at the DNC, is pretty similar. Throughout his last term in Congress, Kinzinger made Ukraine funding a major cause of his remaining time in office. But his voting record also betrayed someone who is fundamentally at odds with the populism of the Trump years.
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