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April 26, 2018

Color of Law

This is How Trump is Destroying the Republican Party

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Following the Republican loss in the 2012 presidential election, the RNC issued an autopsy report calling for a more inclusive party as a means of salvaging its long-term viability. The report urged the GOP to shift its views on LGBTQ rights and immigration, listen to young people, women, people of color, and those who may not agree with the party. Republicans failed to heed the warning, and the result was an erratic, authoritarian narcissist named President Trump.

Donald Trump has remade the Republican Party in his own image. Under his mismanagement and ineptitude, the GOP has become the party of corruption and plunder,…

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