Sunday, May 8, 2016

Trump Spurs Some Conservative Leaders To Step Back From The GOP


By Washington Post, May 07, 2016 

Donald Trump’s looming nomination has spurred some leaders of the conservative movement — for generations, the backbone of the GOP — to break free from a Republican Party now being rapidly reshaped by the New York billionaire’s incendiary tone and unorthodox populism.

The extraordinary resistance of many figures on the right this past week to Trump has not been prompted merely by objections to his temperament and fears about his electability in November. At the core has been a calculation by self-identified “movement conservatives” that they would rather preserve their entrenched ideological project than promote a nominee who they believe would violate their creed and ethos.

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1 comment:

  1. The resistance to Donald Trump has everything to do with his electability. Trump is very unpopular in key demographics.

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