The Grand Old Party no longer ends up drifting towards its right wing, pushed by influential preservative polemists and intellectuals, as well as by a new generation of elected officials.
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Analysis. One year after the assault given by loyal heated to white by Donald Trump against the United States Congress, on January 6, 2021, to attempt vainly to cancel the verdict of the polls, the Republican Party continues to deploy considerable energy for Prevent the manifestation of the truth. The evidence can accumulate, accrediting the thesis of a coup attempt planned by the man who had sworn four years earlier to protect the Constitution, the great Old Party continues to look elsewhere and to purify his dissidents. . For a good reason: far from being an accident, this episode constituted the major step of a deep transformation.
The latter is obvious, if we remember the uncompromising introspection to which the defeat suffered in 2012 by Mitt Romney against Barack Obama had given rise, less than six months after the lost election. “The Republican Party must stop talking to himself,” then wrote the mandated party executives to analyze the reasons for failure. “We have become experts to provide ideological strengthening to those who think the same [we], but, disastrously, we have lost the ability to be convincing, or welcoming, to those who are not of Agree with us on everything, “they pursued.
The Republican Party of 2022 turns the back to that of 2013. Its decision to give up the slightest program during the 2020 investiture agreement, to rely on Donald Trump, had been the ultimate sign of ideological deliquescence with respect to its past convictions. The refusal of the slightest introspection, on the defeat as potential responsibilities in the unprecedented stroke against the institutions of the United States, testifies in turn of the moral capitulation of the traditional Republican current in the face of the emergence of the new forces. Called by Donald Trump. The latter range from militia involved in the attack on the theorists of pessimistic ethno-nationalism, which constitutes the negation of the bright conservatism expressed by Ronald Reagan in his speech by farewell in 1989.
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The new generation of polemists who succeeded the editorialist Rush Limbagh, their spiritual father at all, carried away by cancer a few weeks after the assault, maintains the conservative base in an alternative reality. It is Dan Bongino or Tucker Carlson – the attempt at rewriting by the latter of the 6th of January through a documentary endorsed by his employer Fox News was followed by the departure of the respected chain Chris Wallace, one of the most talented interviewers in the United States.
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