Commentary: Farewell to the Grand Old Party
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Oct 16, 2018
3 minutes
All happy partisans are alike; each unhappy partisan is unhappy in his own way.
Max Boot, the Russian-born hawkish polemicist, was a deeply unhappy Republican. His cells hurt when Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign in 2015. Then Trump kept amping up the note of racism in Republican thinking, and Boot was struck by deeper plasmic horror.
"I had denied that Republicans were racist," Boot said recently. "I couldn't deny it anymore."
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