Watching, from the inside, as a national political party became a mob of thugs
September 7, 2022
As a political operative, I watched the GOP turn into a hate group that preached violence, White Supremacy and bigotry.
Primary wins show Trump’s continuing hold on Republicans
August 11, 2022
An FBI raid on Ma-a-Lago brought whining and screams of “politics not justice” from wary GOP members and primary wins secure the disgraced former president’s hold on the party.
I worked for American traitors: The Republican Party
February 7, 2022
As a Republican operative who helped too many members of that now exposed cadre of enemies of the state, I am ashamed.
GOP pollster warns Trump is killing their party
September 16, 2018
The prognosis for President Donald Trump and his party was grim. In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told
Sen. Ben Sasse might leave the GOP
September 9, 2018
A Republican who’s among President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate says he “regularly” considers leaving his party and becoming an independent. That’s
Will Trump kill off the Grand Old Party?
October 25, 2017
Can the traditional Republican Party survive the presidency of Donald Trump? That existential question, which has nagged at Republicans since Trump’s stunning election one year
Death to the Grand Old Party
July 17, 2017
Ironic that Sen. John McCain’s surgery to remove a blot clot delayed the latest planned vote on the chaotic health care plan proposed by the
George Will quits GOP over Trump
June 26, 2016
Conservative columnist George Will has parted ways with the Republican Party, changing his voter registration to “unaffiliated” because of the GOP’s support of Donald Trump.
California’s GOP fault lines
May 1, 2016
The Republican Party in California has been riven for decades between those who want to tack to the ideological center to expand its diminishing appeal
Republican Party’s death: Good riddance & goodbye
April 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump scored huge wins Tuesday in New York’s primary — a contest that, for all practical purposes, sealed the fate of