BASHAM: The American people v. the GOP

Mass protest, MAGA and far-left Original/AIReading modeReadingAaPaperAaSepiaAaNightWe learn a lot more from defeat than from victory. Trump’s Republican Party must demonstrate it understands the wrath American voters unleashed across the midterms. Republicans have suffered the worst midterm outcome for either major party since the 1974 Watergate election. Nevertheless, the wrong lessons may be learned. Ronald Reagan once observed, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant; it is just that they know so much that is not so.” The same may be said for the senators, congressmen, financial donors, and political advisers who constitute today’s Republican establishment.Republican elites "know" the party must rid itself of MAGA-style populism. For instance, Hispanics swung back to Democrats because of Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown. But Hispanics, who two years ago voted for Trump, wanted a crackdown.

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