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Top Republican accuses Trump voters of failing the Greatest Generation
Republicans Chose the Strongman and Called It PoliticsThe reporting here is not really about surprise. It is about a party that knew exactly who Donald Trump was, kept the nomination pipeline open anyway, and then spent years pretending the damage was some unforeseeable accident. Stuart Stevens, a Republican insider turned anti-Trump critic, says the party made a deal: power first, principles later. The rest is just cleanup mythology.The Party KnewThe central fact is simple: Republican elites were not duped. They were warned, they understood the extremism, and they went along. Stevens’s point…
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