Letters: ‘The GOP Is Too Far Gone’

I’m Not Leaving the Republican Party

“Trump has inflicted wounds on the GOP that will take a long time to heal,” Jay Caruso wrote recently. “But I am not about to abandon the party as a result.”  The GOP, he argued, is still best suited to lead the country.

While I understand and respect this writer’s want to return to the traditional principles of the Republican party, these are principles that the GOP has long abandoned, culminating with Trump. Yes, there are holdouts and exceptions within the Republican party. However, the leadership of the GOP in Washington and most prominent members throughout the states have irreparably damaged the credibility of the party in their embrace of the Trumpian doctrine. Both parties require reform and neither is innocent in the lead-up to Trump. But in the GOP there are simply too