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With Donald Trump’s victories on Tuesday, he is on track to secure the 1,215 delegates needed to win the GOP presidential nomination. The rest is just a formality. The party has become a tool to realize Trump’s ambitions, and will almost in fact be his standard-bearer for the third time.
This is a tragedy for the Republican Party and those it claims to serve.
In a healthy democracy, political components are organizations committed to electing politicians who share a set of values and policy goals. They function as part of the political machine, working with elected officials and public officials to ensure that elections take place. Parliamentarians are voicing their differences within the component to strengthen and refine their positions. In America’s two-component democracy, Republicans and Democrats have swapped seats in the White House and shared percentages of strength in Congress on a solid ticket for more than a century.
The Republican Party has abandoned all those day-to-day jobs and become an organization whose purpose is the choice of a user at the expense of everything else, adding integrity, principle, politics, and patriotism. As an individual, Trump has demonstrated a commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law that makes him unworthy of office. But when an entire political party, especially one of the two primary parties in a country as tough as the United States, becomes a tool of this user and his maximally harmful ideas, the damage affects everyone. world.
Trump’s ability to consolidate himself over the Republican Party and temporarily defeat its parties in conflict over the nomination is due in part to the fervor of an organization of supporters who have earned him sweeping victories in nearly every top spot so far. perhaps its greatest vital merit is that there are few GOP leaders left who seem willing to defend a selective vision of the component’s future. The vast majority of those who continue to blatantly oppose him are those who have left office. Some said they were afraid to speak out because they faced threats of violence and retaliation.
In a classic presidential number one, victory signals a democratic mandate, in which the winner enjoys popular legitimacy, conferred through the party’s voters, but also accepts that the defeated rivals and their different perspectives have a position within the party. Trump no longer does, having used the number one as a tool to purge the party of dissent. Republican candidates who dropped out of the race had to show their determination or threaten to be discarded. Her new rival, Nikki Haley, is a Republican. Leader with a decades-later conservative who served in Haley’s cabinet. Trump in his first term. Now he’s chased her away. ” She’s necessarily a Democrat,” the former president said the day before her loss in South Carolina. “I think he’ll probably change parties. “
Without a sufficient number of incumbent Republicans who have demonstrated that they will serve the Constitution and other Americans before the president, the country is taking an enormous risk. Some unwanted Republicans, such as Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, have tried to hold their party’s leader accountable for his basic duty to uphold the law. Without such leaders, the Republican Party also loses the ability to prevent decisions that could hurt its supporters. John McCain, for example, voted to save Obamacare because his party had been presented with no choice and millions of other people would have lost their fitness coverage otherwise.
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