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The comet has hit: Former party bigwig on the extinction of the old GOP
What happened
Former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman told AlterNet that the Republican Party she left in 2022 is unlikely to return after Donald Trump leaves its leadership. Her answer to the headline’s extinction metaphor is blunt: the old GOP is gone because, in her assessment, the party has become a “cult” whose positions change with Trump’s commands rather than follow a stable platform.
Whitman contrasted that structure with the Republican tradition she identifies with—balanced budgets, alliances, science, refugee protection and negotiated problem-solving…
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