Ex-Bush Speechwriter Laments What The GOP Has Become Under Donald Trump
Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, in his new column for The Washington Post explored Donald Trump’s “poisonous legacies” and argued the GOP is now “just the party of white grievance.”
Trump’s presidency, and the ex-POTUS’ divisive and violent rhetoric, helped to “expand the boundaries of expressible prejudice,” wrote Gerson.
“Through the explicit practice of White-identity politics, Trump has obviated the need for code words and dog whistles,” he added.
The Republican Party had been “swiftly repositioned as an instrument of white grievance,” Gerson continued, noting its refusal to “condemn racists within its congressional ranks” and how its “main national legislative agenda seems to be the suppression of minority voting.”
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