The Republican Party cannot blame the media's positive reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris for the downturn in their fortunes, wrote National Review executive editor Mark Antonio Wright. Rather, their problem begins with the fact that they "picked a bad candidate" to lead the ticket.The Nationa...
It’s not quite that simple, though. Trump took control of the party, and the people who were in control before him or who wish they were in control now, those people might not be happy with their loss of personal power.
They also know, as we know, that being overtly racist and sexist is probably not going to win the hearts of the majority of Americans. In the past and today, many conservative candidates have pushed racist and sexist policies but they’ve been less conspicuous about doing so, and that let them maintain some semblance of decency to some percent of the voting population. With Trump or anyone of his style at the helm, it’s much harder for people to deny the horror.
Finally, it’s certainly true that many conservative politicians don’t agree with some aspects of Project 2025. The problem they have had in the Trump cult era is that they didn’t dare say anything that would go against their fearless leader.
Having written all of that, Republicans who are only finally speaking out now are showing us that they prioritized personal political survival over everything else, and I don’t have much respect for that.