As GOP Senators Bail, Republicans Are Learning What A Trump Party Looks Like
What does a Party of Donald Trump look like?
As a second mainstream Republican chooses to leave the Senate rather than run for re-election in a party led by President Trump, an organization molded by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan appears to be in an identity crisis that typically afflicts a party out of power, not one that controls both chambers of Congress and the White House.
What party? laughed Rick Tyler, a longtime GOP consultant who worked for the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas last year. Its hard to say that its anyones party right now. It is both intellectually and ideologically unmoored.
Tyler said Trumps inability to focus on legislation, or even understand it, makes it virtually impossible for him to lead his own party, let alone the nation. He doesnt have a core set of beliefs. He never has. Hes going to believe in whats good for him at the moment, Tyler said. The president is supposed to be the North Star in all of these things. And hes just a constellation. And weve got no way of knowing where hes going to be in six months.
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