GOP Russia Love =No Longer The Gipper’s Party.
“It’s not Ronald Reagan’s GOP anymore.
The Republican Party’s shift from Russia hawk to something softer is straining the GOP at a crucial juncture, highlighting the ascendency of former President Trump’s “America First” approach and exasperating old-guard conservatives who long for a return to the assertive foreign policy championed by the party through generations prior.It’s created nothing short of an identity crisis for those Republicans who still identify with the party of former President Reagan, a Cold War president long lionized within the GOP ranks for his aggressive confrontations with the Soviet Union.
“Ronald Reagan would not recognize today’s GOP,” said John Conway, head of strategy for Republicans for Ukraine, a group pressing GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to provide more military aid to Kyiv.
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The evolution of political parties can take time or can be abrupt in nature. In the the case of the GOP the change was somewhat abrupt after Donald Trump assumed control of the party in a manner few politicians have achieved in the last 100 years. He has more control in Washington from his compound in Mara Lago than almost all Washington power players combined. America is certainly in unprecedented territory with great angst about what the future holds and our system of government.
