John Boehner: Today’s GOP Unrecognizable.
Former Rep. John Boehner said that today’s GOP is held hostage by Donald Trump and the right win echo chamber. (Washington Post)
“John Boehner in a new memoir derides today’s Republican Party as unrecognizable to traditional conservatives like himself, held hostage by both former president Donald Trump and by a conservative media echo chamber that is based on creating “chaos” for its own financial needs.
The former House speaker said that he was happy to be away from Washington on Jan. 20, 2017, when Trump was sworn in as president and completed his hostile takeover of the party to which the Ohio Republican had dedicated decades of his life.”
John Boehner always represented the old school country club GOP that is ill fitted to the rapid fire real time pace of the current political World. He also recognizes the direction of the party and the cult of personality that developed around Donald Trump and the almost absolute power he still has over the party and its most loyal adherents. The GOP is no longer a party that would nominate him due to his rejection fo the scorched earth ‘know nothing’ mantra that has overtaken the party. Either would Ronald Reagan he aptly points out.
