Trump's cult of personality threatens to hasten the demise of the GOP
SalonToday’s Republican Party and the “conservative” movement belong to Donald Trump. In the most basic and obvious example of how Donald Trump and the Republican Party are now basically one and the same thing, the party’s platform has almost literally been rewritten to be “whatever Donald Trump wants he gets.” In all, today’s Republican Party and "conservative" movement are a personality cult with Donald Trump as the cult leader. Republican former representative Liz Cheney lamented that her party had “embraced Donald Trump embraced his cult of personality” after her 2022 defeat by a Trump-backed candidate. Leading Republican pollsters and influentials such as Frank Luntz are warning that Donald Trump’s behavior and response to Vice President Harris’s energized campaign is a loser and “political suicide.” On NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is one of the corrupt ex-president’s supplicants, warned that “President Trump can win this election.
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