A Perfect Symbol Of Today’s Republican Party

The following commentary by Gene Lyons was posted on the National Memo website August 21, 2018:

2016 Republican National Convention delegates. Credit: Mike Segar, Reuters

How much power it will retain after November remains in doubt, but the Republican Party as historically understood is vanishing before our eyes. What remains is the Party of Trump, an authoritarian cult of personality.

As I write, the President of the United States has been engaged in a barefaced effort at jury-tampering in a trial directly affecting his personal interest. While a jury deliberated eighteen counts of tax evasion and bank fraud against former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump daily assailed the prosecutors as “thugs” and their case as a politically-motivated fraud.

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