Jonah Goldberg: A third party could impose some pain on the Trumpified GOP
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Oct 12, 2021
3 minutes
In 2020, many on the right had modest hopes for President Biden.
The hope hinged on the not implausible theory that he would govern as a centrist because that’s how he campaigned. Biden did markedly better than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance with Republican-friendly constituencies. Indeed, 7% of 2016 Republican Trump voters defected to Biden in 2020. Even Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., caught on hidden camera, admitted that Trump-hostile Republicans delivered Wisconsin to Biden,
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