Former GOP chair Michael Steele on saving his party after Trump: "Terraform" it, or destroy it?
SalonMichael Steele is a man without a political party. Those were consistent with what we've seen — the party's recent embrace of white nationalism, sort of this fake populism that's born out of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon in the 1960s. They don't want a nasty soundbite from Donald Trump, or a member of the Trump family or Lindsey Graham or somebody who's going to side against them. Is it the idea that if you're a Republican you can say whatever pigheaded thing you want, because there's really no penalty in your party? You just got to go through it, and the country has to state declaratively — and this could mean the end of the party, in one sense, that we don't want you governing anything until you get on the page with 70 to 80 percent of the American people, who see white nationalism as a problem.
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