Where Trump Succeeded - By Charles M. Blow

By Charles M. Blow
Opinion Columnist

June 3, 2018

In one way, Donald Trump’s presidency has been a raging success: He stole a political party. Among most of the people who we used to call Republicans, among the people who like Trump or at least loathe the things that Trump loathes, Trump is not a disappointment but a deity.

As the former House speaker, John Boehner, said Thursday at a political event in Michigan: “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.”

No sir, the Republican Party as you knew it — and I knew it — is in a Trump-induced coma. As Trump dragged down your party, Republican voters cheered, and your so-called leaders have cowered.

Congressmen have shielded and protected him, excused and accepted him. The party as a whole — or at least the vast majority of it — has turned its back on much of what it once held dear, and heretofore adhered to: a common sense of morality, ethics and norms or propriety.

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