Something dramatic has hit Washington. It’s about more than Trump.
The party now in control of the US executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two existing parties. It goes by the name Republican but this is nearly a historical accident. The GOP was a vessel that was least protected against invasion and occupation. It has now been nearly taken over by outsiders who had little or no influence within the party a decade ago.
Nearly all the top people now in power – including Trump of course but also Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy, Lutnick, and so many more, to say nothing of the voters themselves – are refugees from the Democratic Party. Coalitions have dramatically changed. Voting blocs have migrated. And policy debates and priorities are nothing like they have been in any period since the end of the Great War.
The occupiers left a Democratic Party that was and is busy consuming itself with Rousseauian frenzies on issues about which most people do not care or are otherwise completely opposed. The legacy establishment of the Republican Party, however, never welcomed them in. They were hated and resisted at every step.
The author goes over the evolution of the Trump Republican Party, which, by the author’s reasoning is not really the Republican Party, at all, but a new party arising from the ashes of the old party. He brings in the new foundational members of this new party one-by-one and tells the reasons why each factor came together to form the new party. This is a well reasoned appraisal of what this new party is and what we may expect, in some respects, that they will do. The author hopes that this new party can do the same as Jackson did to the the parties of his day, crushed them.