The modern Republican Party has become a cult of personality whose golden calf is a doddering old man singularly consumed with grievance, vengeance and self-enrichment.
The Trump administration announced the creation of a $1.7 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” designed to compensate allies of the president who believe they were wronged by the Biden Justice Department.
The federal government − under Donald Trump − is now effectively constructing a taxpayer-backed victimhood fund for political loyalists under the banner of lawfare.
There is understandable exhaustion among many Americans when critics warn that Trump represents an existential threat to democratic norms and ethical governance.
The old Republican language of limited government and moral rectitude now survives only as decorative wallpaper pasted over naked opportunism.
I suspect historians will eventually look back on 2024 not as the beginning of Republican dominance, but as the bright final burst that often precedes collapse.
The Republican Party once sold itself as the steward of institutional stability, personal responsibility, and fiscal seriousness. »